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NNTP Gateway for Usenet ( Newsgroups ), Mailing Lists
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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: http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showt...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. Download Now Only licensed members can download files, Click Here for more information. Screenshots Show Your Support
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NNTP Gateway for Usenet ( Newsgroups ), Mailing Lists | lierduh | vBulletin 3.5 Add-ons | 734 | 04 Feb 2013 07:06 |
NNTP Gateway (Usenet/Newsgroups) | Gilby | vBulletin 2.x Full Releases | 987 | 16 Jul 2005 01:01 |
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Very nice work - I'm yet to install, but I'm sure many members will find it useful as with the first version.
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I reserve this post position for support FAQ. This way it will be easily found and referred to.
If you have problem retrieving and posting messages, please make sure your web server can access the NNTP server. If you have shell access to your web server either by telnet or ssh. You can test the server access using: ============================= First, ssh or telnet to your web server. Then telnet the news server from your web server. For example: [[email protected] eyoforums]$ telnet msnews.microsoft.com 119 Trying 207.46.248.16... Connected to msnews.microsoft.com (207.46.248.16). Escape character is '^]'. 200 NNTP Service 6.0.3790.1146 Version: 6.0.3790.1146 Posting Allowed GROUP microsoft.public.access 211 13988 1 86055 microsoft.public.access ARTICLE 86054 ============================== ie. after telnet to the NNTP server by using "telnet msnews.microsoft.com 119" type GROUP group.name then type ARTICLE xxxxx (xxxx is the post number) You should get the whole article including the header. If the telnet does not even work. There is no point trying to fix the gateway. You can do other things while you are under the telnet session. Type "help" will get a list of the commands you can use. To quit a telnet session, type push Ctrl key together with "]" without the quotes. Server Crashed during the creation of gateway tables, now I am getting MySQL errors when open AdminCP interfaces The best way to do when this happens is to delete both nntp_groups and nntp_settings tables. Open the AdminCP interfaces. These tables will be recreated by the AdminCP interfaces. Tables will also be upgraded to the latest version automatically. It tries to download instead of displaying the contents on the screen when I run it manually Please fix the Windows registry following the instruction here: http://support.microsoft.com/default...&Product=ie600 The gateway retrieves the messages our forums sent This usually happens if the news server rewrite your Organization header, eg. to insert advertising etc. Please set the "No Organization Check" to '0' without the quotes. Which newsgroup providers do other forum owners use? Please check out this thread: http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=75232 No members have liked this post.
Last edited by lierduh; 29 Jan 2005 at 13:44. |
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To upgrade from the beta vB3 version in the vB2 hack thread to this new vB3 version, you need to upload the new files here, and then run these queries before running the new gateway to add the new nntp settings variables:
Otherwise, this new gateway.php won't work with the old settings. ![]() No members have liked this post.
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Cool. Anything's better than google's interface.
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What exactly do I need to be abl to run this? I use SSH to connec tto my Web server and while in the SSH session I tried the command telnet news.swiftel.com.au 119, but got the error bash: telnet: command not found.
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Originally Posted by Majik™
That means your host has removed telnet program from your server, or disallowed the users to use telnet.
Above steps are only for fault finding. No need to try if you have no problem. By the way, in the example, I used my own news server. You need to use your own. No members have liked this post.
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lierduh's upgraded USENET hack seems to work a whole lot better than the old ones.
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Hey, lierduh -
Suggestion for a future release: I've commented out the entire signature routine in gateway.php to keep my users from being flamed hard by real Usenet users - since you have to be pretty durned old to remember when a signature was <dash><dash><space><cr> No more than four lines of text Setting a database field to skip the whole signature routine to keep Usenet neophytes from getting their feelings hurt might be kinda cool - but commenting out the routine doesn't take a whole lot of technical expertise. Just a thought ![]() No members have liked this post.
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Originally Posted by allan grossman
That should be quite easy to implement. At the moment, the users can uncheck the "Show your signature" when post. I can have a "disable signature" option in the settings table to disable the signature altogether.
![]() Another thing I have on mind is to create a posting interface which behaves just like a news reader. ie. No BB codes available, just the "> > " for quoted text. It will be kind like WYSIWG of a news reader. This way, it will be much easier to trim the quoted text, and it will reduce the chance of forum news posts getting flamed. :devious: Right now, I just want to get the second part of the Admin CP interface finished. No members have liked this post.
Last edited by lierduh; 17 May 2004 at 15:46. |
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I have something to add to this discussion... something I never thought about until someone pointed it out. I have had this hack installed for at least a week and have never been able to get my posts out to Usenet. I just checked with my host and, sure enough, they have outgoing port 119 blocked! :ermm: To make matters worse, they refuse to open it up for my domain.
So, if anyone here is having problems with their posts not showing up, first thing I would do is check to see if your host is blocking outgoing port 119. I'm screwed unless someone wants to code POP3 to NNTP or something to that effect. :ermm: this sucks... To those people who have this thing working, what hosts are you using? Mine is Lunarpages. No members have liked this post.
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Originally Posted by Imhotep
That won't help your situation, your web server needs to talk to a NNTP server on port 119 to send the news to it. pop3 to nntp is used to post news by email instead of vB.
If you can retrieve news but not post, that means the port is open. Does the news server accepts posts? or does the server accepts posts from your web server's IP range? If you can ssh to your web server, just try to use one of the Unix news readers from the shell. eg. tin. You can even use lynx to read news. Check Google, I can't remember. ![]() No members have liked this post.
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Some news providers will also let you run NNTP on other ports - like port 80. I'd contact my news provider.
At work the NNTP *protocol* is blocked ![]() No members have liked this post.
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Originally Posted by allan grossman
Good idea, Allan... I am going to look into it. thanks! No members have liked this post.
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