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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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Well, I don't think I need this anymore...
For those wishing to speed up the import process, you can setup a private test forum, setup the NNTP hack, import newsgroups and then use impex to copy the imported data from the private forum to the real one. Not sure if this is a good idea, I'm going to try it right away... |
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hmm .. not sure if this has been mentioned before ..
Hacks been working brilliantly and there's only one thing I've noticed which bugs me .. When looking at the list of threads in a forum that is of USENET posts and you hover your mouse over a thread title instead of getting the first post wording pop up you seem to get the last post in the thread. This is not the normal way the forums work. I've looked in the settings and I can't see anything that would effect this. Is there anyway I can get the first post to show instead of the last post? As a side note, I did have it set to show time a post was imported into the forums .. I've now changed that to show post made on USENET .. not sure if that will make a difference .. Any ideas? |
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Just spotted this thread ..
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=220 Will this solve my problem? .. It's from last year so I would of thought it would of been incorporated into the hack .. has it? I don't want to add it to my gateway.php if it's already been done somewhere else in the code .. |
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please post your comments if you are able to speed up this SLOW process anyhow. thanks. |
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Is this hack being supported anymore? Haven't seen much input from the programmers lately...
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he just posted on may 13
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Ahh, perhaps my questions were just overlooked
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Hi,
Great MOD you have, but i have some problems; why does a titel like Quote:
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some have told me it can be a MIME problem, but is there a solution for this? /Peter |
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