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About Developer · **Released**: 02-19-2002

This hack provides a gateway to any NNTP newsgroup such as those from Usenet and other newsgroup servers. Selected newsgroups are imported from your news server and post on the forum are sent out to the newsgroup. This hack was greatly inspired by fastforward's usenet gateway hack. This one is a complete rewrite of that hack written in PHP and works with vB 2.2.2.

Installation:
Installation is pretty simple. No modifications to the vB php files are needed and it simply consists of dropping in the files to your forums directory, running the SQL modifications, and modifying the newsgroup settings for your desired newsgroups. For the complete installation details, read the readme.txt file.

Here are some of the features:

Real cool vbcode to text conversion!
All posts are inserted, even if parent thread cannot be found for replies
Guests posts also get sent to the newsgroup.
Importing of attachments from the newsgroup
Poll info sent to newsgroup
Attachment link sent to newsgroup
Supports unlimited newsgroups and servers.
email notification of new replies, just like regular forum posts
Can import HTML messages and convert to limited vb code.

For control panel integration, please check out GameCrash's Graphical Interface addition.

What's not in it that was in fastforward's usenet gateway hack:

No control panel integration at the moment. (Available separately)
Does not support separate footers
Does not allow custom email address to be used via the users option
No spam control or string replacement support.
No purging or autoexpire.

There is still lots that I'd like to add to it, but this is competely functional for basic newsgroup gateway support. It is most likely not free of bugs.

If you have questions, suggestions or annoyances, please post in this thread.

vb3 support
lierduh modified this to provide support for the beta versions of vb3. When the release candidates of vb3 come out, I plan to add support for vb3 and add other features to this hack. If you have suggestions for new features, let me know.

E-mail gateway support
New in this version, you can now gateway with an email list. This will fetch emails from a POP email account and send via php's mail function to the mailing list's email address. To set up the list, in the newsgroup field, enter in the email address to send outgoing posts to. In the server field, enter in the pop3 server, and in the username and password fields enter in, you guessed it, the username and password to your pop account. Note: the email gateway capabilities has not been fully tested, so it might not work with your POP server. Also, it does not work in combo with a news<->forum gateway in the same forum (you can use either kind though in differnet forums within your forums).

wot-Mike · #**212** 03-03-2002, 07:59 PM

Thanks for the extremely fast reply

Now to get this thing to post...

The Realist · #**213** 03-03-2002, 08:26 PM

Installed this hack and all I am getting when I run the gateway.php file is:

NNTP (Usenet/Newsgroup) Gateway

And thats it.

No newsgroup posts are posted in my forums?

Why........ anyone!

Brian

saab340 · #**214** 03-04-2002, 01:24 AM

I am Interested with some filter capability when it comes available...

Also just noticed some of the posts coming from usenet groups have 4 identical replies from same guy.

ie if original post have 3 guys participated, mine shows I have 12 posts 4 each ???

What would cause this? Its happening with posts that have appx 10-20 posts.

Erwin · #**215** 03-04-2002, 08:18 AM

NOTE to all having problems connecting with the news server - you need to try another news server. I have tried a few of the free public ones - not all of them work.

This hack DOES WORK. You just need to find the correct news server. I have been using this hack on the day it was released, and it has not stopped working yet. The only time it stops working is when my free news server changes IP addresses - I just need to keep up!

Well done, Gilby, for one of the best hacks for VB!

Erwin · #**216** 03-04-2002, 08:19 AM

Also, some of the free news servers allow READING only, NO POSTING (so you can download posts but cannot upload posts). Others allow POSTING only, NO READING (so you can login but no posts get downloaded, while you can upload posts).

Just shop around...

lifesourcerec · #**217** 03-04-2002, 02:38 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Erwin
NOTE to all having problems connecting with the news server - you need to try another news server. I have tried a few of the free public ones - not all of them work.

This hack DOES WORK. You just need to find the correct news server. I have been using this hack on the day it was released, and it has not stopped working yet. The only time it stops working is when my free news server changes IP addresses - I just need to keep up!

Well done, Gilby, for one of the best hacks for VB!

It works great, but I removed it because while trying to delete about 50,000 old posts downloaded, it kept crashing the MySQL server.I do a mass prune, it works for a couple of minutes, then MySQL crashes.

GameCrash · #**218** 03-04-2002, 02:43 PM

Next time, you should set the initial post numer to a higher value so you don't get so much posts

wot-Mike · #**219** 03-04-2002, 03:00 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Erwin
NOTE to all having problems connecting with the news server - you need to try another news server. I have tried a few of the free public ones - not all of them work.

This hack DOES WORK. You just need to find the correct news server. I have been using this hack on the day it was released, and it has not stopped working yet. The only time it stops working is when my free news server changes IP addresses - I just need to keep up!

Well done, Gilby, for one of the best hacks for VB!

I wonder about the legality of just connecting to any news-server that happens to allow posting to anyone, or even reading. I haven't found a single site that actually advertises with "hey, you can post all you want though our newsserver".

That's the thing that bugs me about this.

mood · #**220** 03-04-2002, 03:20 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by wot-Mike

I wonder about the legality of just connecting to any news-server that happens to allow posting to anyone, or even reading. I haven't found a single site that actually advertises with "hey, you can post all you want though our newsserver".

That's the thing that bugs me about this.

Although this is Off Topic as well: NNTP is about enormous bandwidth & storage strain. If a service is free - who pays for the boxes? Most of the free Usenet is either school financed, underground or newbies wanting to run a server and suddenly noticing that their 80 GB IDE drive has been filled in a few hours.

If you translate the time you spend trying to find a free server to $$ you'd be able to afford any premium service out there. My count works like this: 1.5 beer less per week will pay for my NNTP account for a year :-)

Mood

wot-Mike · #**221** 03-04-2002, 03:38 PM

Not sure if this is entirely off topic

But any suggestions are welcome regarding paid services

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