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NNTP Gateway for Usenet ( Newsgroups ), Mailing Lists
Developer Last Online: Nov 2023
The latest version: V2.3.2 (31 Oct 2004)
What is it? This hack provides a gateway from vBulletin forums to the USENET. It allows forum members to read newsgroup messages as well as to send posts to the newsgroups. In a nutshell, it turns vBulletin forums into a basic function news reader. For an added bonus, this package also supports mailing list archive and forum to mailing list gateway. The software retrieves messages from a pop3 account and import them into the forums threaded. It also allows a forums user to send messages to the mailing list by the forum posting interface. Why? The gateway will be appreciated by forum members who do not know how to set up a news reader, or people who do not have port 119 open in their network. A forum interface to read and post news are often considered to be better than a news reader. The gateway adds more contents to your forums and allows the members to interact with wider audience. It is common to see new users signing up to use this feature. History This hack is basically a hacked vB2 NNTP gateway written by Gilby to work with vB3. The original hack can be found here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...7&page=1&pp=15 Features Some of the features and improvement include:
Future development
What do you need and do not need? You do not need to edit vB php files if you use two bookmarks You need to edit one vB php file to insert two lines of code if you want direct click links within AdminCP. No need to run SQL. Installation Basically the AdminCP interfaces take care of installation as well as upgrade in the background. Back up your database first. The scripts can modify your database without alerting you! Please follow the instructions in the readme.txt file for more details. Support Please post your support questions to this thread. Please check the FAQ in the third post within this thread first. ================== UPDATES ====================== Jul 31 2004 (release version 2.2.0)
Please note, when you manually run the script, you must turn on the debug mode. Otherwise nothing will be displayed on the screen. To run as debug mode: http://forums.yourdomain.com/gateway.php?debug=1 25 Oct 2004
31 Oct 2004 Fixed bugs running the gateway by the vB3 Scheduled Tasks 1 March 2004 Uploaded the new zip file. It contains one or two bug fixes. Show Your Support
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Hi
I have noticed if we get the error "Could not connect to NNTP-server" the script still tries to post to the newsgroup. Would it be possible to edit the script so it doesnt try to post if it doesnt get a successful connection to the news server? cheers |
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hi,
i have the problem that i set up one newsgroup in one forum for testing. it works fine now it dont stop importing the news. first i set the newgroup to inactive. then i deleted the group. then i delted the cronjob in crontab. nothing works it is still importing like hell. and it has still the same time. this time is hours ago. looks like a nevernding poll of the gateway.php because the time didnt change. it is still the time when i started this the first time. what can i do to stop this ? thx EDIT all right, it seems that i found how to stop it. i restarted apache2 webserver and now it stopped. strange... :ermm: |
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all newsgroups are counted double. normal forum threads just once. and this is a clear, just one testpost, user- and hackfree (except this one) forum. brand new installed. |
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Is there another way to exclude the usenet-posts from getnew instead of changing the getnew-param to
PHP Code:
We import about 50 newsgroups in our forums and I would like tohavethem excluded like PHP Code:
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I've been using the Usenet gateway on my vb2 forums - last sunday I did an update to vb306 at last. now i wanted to update the gateway hack too - and now I have a question - can I use this hack on existing usenet-forums within my site? Will the new hack recognize the posts and threads that are already stored on my usenet-forums and won't try to resend it to usenet groups?
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I was curious as to how many different usenet newsgroup providers there were and how much they cost, so, Ive started a thread in the lounge entitled :
"What "Usenet" newsgroup provider do you use ?" https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=75232 It would have been nice to have seen this question / link in the F.A.Q. post of this thread. |
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No the posts already exported will not be exported again. |
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If you have many newsgroup forums. You can put all your local forums under one main forum. Then you can use the main forum id in the URL just as we have done for the NNTP forums.
/search.php?do=getnew&forumid=1 (1 is the main forum id for all your local forums) Quote:
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lierduh,
I'm still having my issue that I posted above. I can get posts to show up on my forums, and I can successfully post. I am using the Scheduled Tasks in vb and it works fine. However, all is working fine for only the first forum in the list. I'm currently using the following groups in this order: 24hoursupport.helpdesk alt.privacy.spyware microsoft.public.security microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6.browser microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics microsoft.public.windowsxp.general microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_admin All groups are enabled, and are using a personal newshosting.com account I have set up with posting access. When gateway.php runs via the scheduled tasks, it hits the first group on the list, and updates it with the new posts from the NG. I have gateway.php set to hit the groups listed above every 15 min (I've played with different times, and nothing seems to work). Any idea why only the first group in my list will update? I've even set the first group to disabled, which allows the 2nd group to update just fine and allow posting, however the 3rd group on down are not updated. It'd be a real pain to have to enable/disable groups manually. |
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