Version: , by fastforward
Developer Last Online: Nov 2011
Version: 2.2.x
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Released: 07-11-2001
Last Update: Never
Installs: 25
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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.
See it in action at dBforums.com(usenet forums are at the bottom)
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.
On my outgoing posts they do not have the text that the user typed in there. I gave it a test and the same thing happen except one line at the end of my message made it through.
Example:
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The yellow brown fox jump over the fence. The yellow brown fox jump over the fence. The yellow brown fox jump over the fence.
Nice day....
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The only text that made it through was "Nice day..." "SPAM filter" as well as "Apply replacement rules to outgoing posts" is set to OFF.
Help????
Michael
Quote:
Originally posted by AJR Well this is strange... I am testing new threads and replies in my usenet group. When the message is sent, I open up my Agent newsreader and I see the messages that were sent from the forum, BUT the first lines are missing. For example, I type in:
In Agent, the message shows up only as:
I sent a reply to another usenet message as well that was only 1 line, and it showed up in the correct message thread in Agent, but only showed my signature. The text I typed was missing! So I'm assuming it's chopping off my first line or 2 of text. Any reason for this? I have the SPAM filter on outgoing messages set to OFF. Everything else looks good! HELP!!
[2) I have noticed that dbforums and other sites running this hack have the section of the vbulletin home page layout differently to other sections - ie. no moderators and differnt styles. How do you do this. Please could you just point me in the right direction!
Great hack - you should have charged
Kim
Yes great hack indeed. Does anyone have a template to share? I love the way it's laid out but need help in this area.
Originally posted by shadowbreed fastforward could you please help me with my problem above??
If you mean the empty posts, I don't see the error, so I can't really help. I've attached my newnews.pl. Compare it with yours and make sure it's the same. Pay particular attention to the post_outgoing_t, post_outgoing_p and post_outgoing functions.
I'm having the problem that posts made from my board often have no text in the message when viewed on the newsgroup server - except the usenet signature and the tagline from the software.
However, if you type in quite a bit of data (say, 400 or more characters), it will post the message - in my tests, at least.
I'm running a pretty basic setup with the only mods to newnews.pl being the database server information setup.
Originally posted by Shaman I'm having the problem that posts made from my board often have no text in the message when viewed on the newsgroup server - except the usenet signature and the tagline from the software.
However, if you type in quite a bit of data (say, 400 or more characters), it will post the message - in my tests, at least.
I'm running a pretty basic setup with the only mods to newnews.pl being the database server information setup.
Shaman, can you check your newnews.pl against mine in the post above.
With so many people reporting the error; there obviously seems to be a problem, but I haven't identified where or why.
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09-30-2001, 04:06 PM
