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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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Hi orca,
The site is on a dedicated server - with a host -, and yes it is an ISP I am trying to get the news from, I presume franky uses ntl for his newsgroups what setting do you use mate? |
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I use a free newsserver without any passwords. Found it by doing a search for free newsserver in google.
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orca
Can you write to that free sever? |
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Thanks for all you help over the last few weeks guys, I would have gone out of my mind without you it all seems to be working okay down on the test forums using a free newsserver all I need now is for franky to tell me the set-up for ntl? please
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In my travels with Google, I have located several free servers. I did, however heed the advice given by J. Cridland in this thread. And I have experienced stabilty issues wereas they are not up all the time.
On the other hand...they were instrumental in helping me get going with this hack, and so are good for that purpose. The ones I found allow posting, but tend to have alot of spam (or so say my filters!). I ended up spending the small amount of change for a paid service, and the news server that my broadband provider supplies. Great results! If any one wants the small list I have compiled, please PM me, or email me, I will be glad to give 'em up. I'd post 'em here, but I don' know if that's a violation of the rules. Once again, FastF, this is about the coolest thing for the board I could think of! My membership (albeit small) is already raving over the effect's!! If I could buy you a pint, I'd ship you a case!! From one programmer to another, very nice piece of work! |
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Hey Paul,
Yer hack still workin fine with me. I have a suggestion though: What about makin it possible, when searching for new posts, to display not all new usenet messages, but those messages, where board members have participated in? Any chance? -Alex |
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When a user of our forums post's a reply to the usenet group, how long will this take to show up in the usenet group (ie not on the forums in outlook express for example) As I posted a test message but the message has yet to be posted to the usenet group but has shown up on our forums.
any ideas? |
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It might take me a few weeks to get around to it though. I'm in the middle of re-doing BritishExpats.com. It's still running vB 1.1.6 so I think it's about time I did something about it. You can make the change yourself if you like. It's easy peasy. Find the line that was added by the usenet hack in search.php. It should read: $wheresql.=" AND thread.isusenetpost=0"; Change that to: $wheresql.=" AND thread.isusenetpost=0 AND post.isusenetpost <= -1"; If you just want threads that were started by members, change it to: $wheresql.=" AND thread.isusenetpost <= -1"; bitbender: Thanks for your kind words. |
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I've also noticed that when outgoing posts which contain quotes appear on usenet, the quoted text has blank lines between them. They look like this: Juan F. Lara wrote: > Years ago I heard that Warner Brothers Television Animation was going to > make an "Osmosis Jones" TV series to go along with the movie. Whatever > happened to that TV series? Are they still going to make it? Is that normal for the script or did I set up something wrong? |
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