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Have anyone tested this with a free feed? I only need on usenet group (no binary or xxx) to test it and see if it works, I used nezpig for a while, but can't connect to them anymore.

Nice boards!

Man that ubb like forum view is awsome! You should make a hack about it! I'd sure get it! (The little icon next to name in all forums listings..)

I am waiting for the next release on the usenet hack to come out along with vb2 beta4.

Question: When is the next usenet hack beta version coming out with the ability to allow only a few members or group of members to post?

Also I have subscribe to newsfeeds.com which I understand will work with this hack?

Thanks and I can't wait to incorporate this awesome hack into my site.....

DON'T USE NEWSFEEDS

I was using them but they seem to have added some lovely little singature to every one of their posts automatically saying "Message posted by Newsfeeds.com" but it is a lot bigger and ugglier than that. I tihnk if you use spamkillers server they have it is ok but that server seems to have low article retention (ironically).

I am going to go for someone else instead as it makes posts from your site look very unprofessional. Any suggestions?

You might want to look at onlynews.com. I recently switched from newsfeeds to them. They have no speed cap which is ideal for this particular script. On my dbforums site I can pull in 50 posts in about 8 seconds. This extra speed is welcome when you have 70 groups mirrored.

Too late....I had already paid for the year since it was much cheaper that way. What I would like to do is setup my.newsfeeds.com with the groups that I am interested for my members thus it should be very fast according to newsfeeds.com docs.

When my certain group of members who can post to the usenet forum send it through it will go to spamkiller.newsfeeds.com stripping out the footer that is appended to every post.

I hope it works like that...

Any word when the next version will be out? I've added all the modules as requested (I hope) to install and run the hack.

Originally posted by fastforward
You might want to look at onlynews.com. I recently switched from newsfeeds to them. They have no speed cap which is ideal for this particular script. On my dbforums site I can pull in 50 posts in about 8 seconds. This extra speed is welcome when you have 70 groups mirrored.

Fastforward,

I did the SQL and PHP updates, edited vars in newnews.pl but get the following errors:

I installed the 2.1 for beta3

[quote]
Global symbol "$db" requires explicit package name at ./newnews.pl line 46.
Global symbol "$db_host" requires explicit package name at ./newnews.pl line 47.
Global symbol "$db_username" requires explicit package name at ./newnews.pl line 48.

Bareword found where operator expected at ./newnews.pl line 53, near "$smtp_server="localhost"
(Missing operator before localhost?)
String found where operator expected at ./newnews.pl line 65, near "$useragent=""
(Might be a runaway multi-line "" string starting on line 53)
(Missing semicolon on previous line?)
.......

Global symbol "$batch_limit" requires explicit package name at ./newnews.pl line 53.
Global symbol "$expire_days" requires explicit package name at ./newnews.pl line 53.
Global symbol "$italic_quotes" requires explicit package name at ./newnews.pl line 53.
Global symbol "$indent_quotes" requires explicit package name at ./newnews.pl line 53.
Global symbol "$colorize_quotes" requires explicit package name at ./newnews.pl line 53.
Global symbol "$hyperlinked_uri" requires explicit package name at ./newnews.pl line 53.
Global symbol "$allowsmilies" requires explicit package name at ./newnews.pl line 53.
Global symbol "$email_notify" requires explicit package name at ./newnews.pl line 53.
Global symbol "$article_wrap" requires explicit package name at ./newnews.pl line 53.
Global symbol "$max_msg_length" requires explicit package name at ./newnews.pl line 53.
Global symbol "$output_to_console" requires explicit package name at ./newnews.pl line 53.
Global symbol "$useragent" requires explicit package name at ./newnews.pl line 53.
Bareword found where operator expected at ./newnews.pl line 65, near "$useragent="LowCarber"
./newnews.pl has too many errors.

Hmm,

I figuered the above problems. It was due to bad quotes """ (my fault)

Now I can see the articles retrieved, but it fails to add them to musql:

Fetching article body 284512... OK
Fetching article body 284513... OK
Processing article batch...
Requested 150 messages... 1 not available or rejected.

inserting new threads into forums
DBD::mysql::db do failed: Unknown column 'isusenet' in 'field list' at ./newnews
.pl line 595.
Query failed : INSERT IGNORE INTO user (usergroupid,username,password,email,join
date,isusenet,posts,lastvisit,lastactivity,usertit le,customtitle,lastpost) VALUE
S (19,'Luci C.','usenet','bobbiesoxx@aol.comnospam',985074383, 1,1,985074383,9850
74383,'Usenet Poster',1,985074383) : at ./newnews.pl line 595.

Did you read onlynews agreement?

DO NOT use automated unattended news posting and retrieval programs with our service.
Improper use of these automated unattended posting and retrieval news programs can
result in termination of your account or interruption of service without notice. We will be
disabling accounts of any customers that abuse the system with these (or other)
commercial, automated unattended news posting and retrieval programs. OnlyNEWS
Usenet account services are designed and priced for individual use and NOT for
commercial level archiving of gigabytes of data. For purposes of this section and purposes
of clarity, abuse of the system includes but is not limited to downloading in excess of 5
gigabytes over a 30-day period. Your individual account is for personal, non commercial
use -- NOT for archiving, newsfeeding, news sucking, or testing experimental software. If
you would like a commercial newsfeed, please contact our sales staff at

Originally posted by tamarian
Hmm,
Query failed : INSERT IGNORE INTO user (usergroupid,username,password,email,join
date,isusenet,posts,lastvisit,lastactivity,usertit le,customtitle,lastpost) VALUE
S (19,'Luci C.','usenet','bobbiesoxx@aol.comnospam',985074383, 1,1,985074383,9850
74383,'Usenet Poster',1,985074383) : at ./newnews.pl line 595.

Rename the column in the user table from 'isusenetpost' to 'isusenet'. It seems I made a mistake in the SQL installation script. The hardest bit about this hack has been getting the docs right!