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Description:
This hack provides a gateway to selected usenet groups. The entire usenet group is mirrored locally. Posts submitted locally to mirrored newsgroups will also be sent out to usenet. A single perl script is executed via cron that collects news and posts any outgoing articles. Incoming messages are parsed against customizable spam filters and threaded correctly before being placed in your forums. By default, no personal information is sent to usenet other than the posters username and whatever you have globally configured as a footer and organization. The option does exist for a user to include a custom email to use for usenet posts. After initial installation (which involves creating some new tables, adding a few columns to existing vB tables, and entering the database connection information to the news script) configuration is completed via the vB control panel.
Current version is 20020323 for vB2.xx Current feature list:
Main Options More Options Configuration of Newsgroups Add New Newsgroups Spam Control What an imported usenet article looks like in vB The latest version of this hack will always be in this first post of the thread. Before asking questions in this thread, please read all the posts in this thread. If your question goes unanswered, it will probably be because the question has already been answered countless times in this thread. This hack was created for use on my forums and will only be supported as time permits. Links to required Perl Modules Show Your Support
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Fastforward
All fixed I had a total of 2369 usenet post's in the psot table even though I deleted all of them, they showed in th db as having userid zero, so Kier gave me this command to run and they are removed and usenet count is set to zero to restart. This is the command he gave me, DELETE FROM post WHERE userid=0 This ended working out pretty good by doing it I cut the length of my opening page 40%. My forum here http://forums.realwebhost.net Usenet at bottom |
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Anyway, my speed problem - up to 90 seconds per retrieved post - seems to be down to my local ISP's news server at news.btinternet.com... I've tried testing the script with news.grc.com, a public news server dedicated to internet security, and it gets approximately two new messages a second, which looks quite acceptable in comparison! This is Good News, up to a point: since there are no free NNTP servers for W32 that I can find, I still need to work on sourcing a new news server to use. Wonder what the problem is? |
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Small problem
My cron job which as ran ok for awhile is having problems even though it is setup the same way. Not getting any data So I went to telnet and ran manually. the first time I try to run the script from telnet, I enter it and it comes back and says killed, I run it again and it works fine. It does the same way everytime, it fails the first saying killed but always runs the second time. Any ideas what is causing this? |
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Release 20010820
more tweaks to newnews.pl.
All links in every post point to the latest version of this hack. |
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Eeek something wrong here.
I post a quoted reply, and I get 2 posts (same timestamp) 1. --- Frank (/i) (B)test (/B)(/QUOTE) test (QUOTE)(i)Originally posted by Frank wrote: > test part 2 --- 2. --- Frank wrote: > test test again --- The second appears correctly, but what is the 1st one doing on the newsgroup? PS. Square brackets replaced with round for purpose of this post. |
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One suggestion, I think creating a whole new style for this hack is a bit of overkill. It doesn't work for me because I keep changing templates. I think some modification of showthread.pl should be possible to make the posts show up nicer w/o having to create a brand new style. It'll probably be a couple of weeks but I'll look at the code soon.
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heh heh, yup seems we're on the same wavelength...
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I've just installed this hack and it's working very well so far. I have a question about the spam control feature. All the options there are a bit confusing to me, and I'm not quite sure how to make it do what I want. For example, if I didn't want to download a message with "XXX" or "$$$" in the title, how would I set that up? What about a post that had the text "Britney Spears sexy pics" in the body, not the title? What exactly does "treat as regular expression" do?
Also, in the vb_code_changes.txt, is the list of changes wrong? I don't see any instructions for change #5. |
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