Usenet gateway

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I'm adding that feature right now. It will work exactly as you suggest. It will only send an email once for every usenet batch pull. If you get 3 messages in the thread during a batch, only one mail will be sent to each user. Then if the next batch contains a message, it will send another email.

I'm trying to figure out how to use the existing vb template for email from within the perl script at the moment.

I'm also adding a feature to allow vb style quotes for usenet messages. It will mean you can choose italics or the <QUOTE> method. The choice will really depend on the newsgroup and whether the majority of posters use sensible news programs that apply quotations correctly.

regards

i would imagine this is something that is going to change a bit with vb2 with the whole vbhome type thing so hope not too hard to change over, glad you are implementing this though cool.

Originally posted by fastforward

I'm also adding a feature to allow vb style quotes for usenet messages. It will mean you can choose italics or the <QUOTE> method. The choice will really depend on the newsgroup and whether the majority of posters use sensible news programs that apply quotations correctly.

regards

i don't think the whole (quote) and (/quote) thing will work too well, the problem is often that the lines of text get cut off so you get something like

> sdgfasdfgksdgfjdsgkdskgfjsdgjdkg nmfg dsfn mcnv bmcxvn bmxcvnb
df
> sdgfdsfgsdkjgfdksgf kdjfg kdfg dfn gmdfng dng mdfng mdfgn
dsdf
> skf skdg dmfg dkg kdfg dfgdf,gnsdfmgdsfgmsdgf
>

which really does not look good.

I just wonder if there is any clever logic that could be used more than the > line to take into these situations into account? i will have a think about it.

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it is also the one time that i wish that vb allowed threaded listings like wwwthreads

oh the other thing was being able to use more than one usenet server.

The way i could see this being done is having a table containing usenet information,

ID
server address
username
password

etc.

and then for each newsgroup you have an extra column for server id. something like that.

if possible i would really like it, there is this newsgroup i really want to include but it is only avaliable on one server.

any help on where I can obtain a news feed from, cheap as possible please

My favourites are:

OnlyNews for $12.95 with as they don't throttle download speeds.

or

Newfeeds as they have a whole bunch of different servers to choose from.

but

If you're talking about a traditional IHave feed for your own news server then you are looking at a minimum of $200/mth.

Due to popular request... well 2 requests, I have cleaned up and released a new version of the usenet gateway script.

Some of the new features are:

• email notification to usenet replies
• emoticon translation into vb icons
• hyperlinked urls in messages
• italicized quotes
• support for xrover
• logging of outgoing posts

In addition, the code has been completely re-written and is much cleaner (at least I think so).

Some things planned for the version 2 release

• support for multiple news servers
• canceling of messages after they have been sent to usenet
• treating usenet posters as special members so that posts are counted and can be searched by username
• control panel integration

The url for the latest version is usenet_gateway_v115.tar.gz

regards
PAJ

Will this usenet gateway be included in vb2.0?

No, but this hack is being ported over.

cool fastforward, it is looking really great. I am looking forward to the vb2.0 version