[RELEASE] Usenet Gateway for vB 2.01

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)
• Download latest version for vB 2.2.4

Current version is 20020323 for vB2.xx

Current feature list:

• correct threading of outgoing posts on usenet
• full control panel integration
• email notification to usenet replies
• emoticon translation into vb icons
• vb code removal or conversion prior to posting to usenet
• hyperlinked urls in messages
• color coded, italicized & indented quotes
• vB style quote to usenet style quote conversions for outgoing posts
• logging of outgoing posts
• support for multiple news servers
• support for seperate footers per forum in outgoing posts
• multi-language (selectable) handling of quoted MIME printable headers (for all those funny foreign characters)
• handling of mailing archive groups
• flexible spam control and replacement variable options for incoming and outgoing messages
• configurable auto-expire option
• option for users to show email address in their outgoing usenet posts (may be different than normal one in profile
• option to enable/disable user signatures on outgoing posts.
• fully compatible with vB moderation functions

Still to be done:

• canceling of messages after they have been sent to usenet via control message in accordance with RFC1036.
• binary attachment support
• email to PM gateway

Screeshots:
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

• News::NNTPClient
• Net::SMTP
• MIME::WordDecoder
• Text::AutoFormat
• Mail::Address
• URI::Find
• DBI
• DBD::MySQL
• Date::Parse
• HTML::Entities

[jOOPeON]

UUPS !

I removed the lines you asked to and now all replys comes in empty. No bodies, just subject and sender!

-Joop

[NgtCrwlr]

All due respect... I think if you dig deeper you will find the text formatting problem is more than just lists.

Check this thread https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...935#post245935

I have been scratching my head for a long time wondering how I'm the only one that seems to have the formatting problem. I've tried to fix the problem but gave up.

I figure one day I'll get an e-mail that vB3 is released and along with it will come a Usenet hack that works for posting. YeeeeHaaahhhh

Until then I leave my boards read only.

Cheers!

[cyc]

I've just had someone from the UK threaten to sue me because he only gives permission to his 'local' news server to display posts he makes on his 'local' newsgroup. As stupid as it sounds it could happen.

But you really have to wonder about some people.

cheers!

06-21-02 at 11:26 AM ixian said this in Post #470
Please don't take this as insulting, because it isn't meant to be, but, you need to seriously read up on what USENET is because I can't understand why this would even be a question.

Here's your first hint - who would sue you and why?

[PurpleCow]

fastforward :

Can i use the download in your first post of this thread for vB version 2.3.0 ??
does it work for that version ??

Thanks

[zignoran]

Hi I'm considering implementing vB 2.3.0 and your hack as
an integrated solution for our newgroup and forum.
Will this hack work with 2.3.0 ?

[tutorials.de]

07-12-01 at 07:18 AM fastforward said this in Post #1
Description:

This hack provides a gateway to selected usenet groups. [..]

Hi Mate,

big thanks for this great hack, it is a real pleasure watching it running on our website with members browsing the 200,000+ usenet posts

In your hack there is one important feature missing, which you already included on your own website: the possibility to exclude those usenet postings from site searches ( http://dbforums.com/search.php ).

Would you be so kind and post the code change for the search.php? Unfortunatelly I am not so familiar with php & db programming like you are :squareeyed:

Greetings from Germany,

Lagaf
www.tutorials.de

[Erwin]

05-03-03 at 02:41 AM zignoran said this in Post #525
Hi I'm considering implementing vB 2.3.0 and your hack as
an integrated solution for our newgroup and forum.
Will this hack work with 2.3.0 ?

Yes it does.

[tamarian]

Paul,

Any plans on implementing threaded views of usenet posts?

I think this is something that was discussed way back in this old thread, and vB 3.0 is now ready for that.

[zignoran]

Sorry but my project was canceled due to other more pressing requirements. Just delivered a Pocket IE version of vB 2.3

[kaiwang]

I am getting the following error msg:

-> loading 320 replies...
Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0xcc after start byte 0xd3) in substituti
on (s///) at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/Text/Autoformat.pm line 670, <SOCK3> line 4.
Can't call method "length" on an undefined value at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/Text/Autoformat.pm
line 408, <SOCK3> line 4.

Any ideas what it could be???

thanks!