Read Me

This software is provided AS IS. Please back up your data before
running this software.  

vbNntpGateway 1.10
Project Homepage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/vbnntpgateway/
By: Stephane Vander Clock <svanderclock@arkadia.com>
Contributors: Kevin Gilbertson <mail@gilby.com>
              Nikol S <ns@eyo.com.au>

DESCRIPTION

This hack provides a gateway from vBulletin forums to the USENET 
(or any NNTP server). 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. This 
hack is writen in Php, C++ and Delphi. 


INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS:

1. install ./admincp/product_vbnntpgateway.xml in product manager 
   with the admincp.
2. install ./admincp/product_siradrianpreventspam.xml in product manager 
   with the admincp.
3. Upload ./admincp/nntpgateway_group.php and nntpgateway_settings.php 
   files to vbulletin ./admincp/ directory.
4. Upload ./admincp/cpnav_vbnntpgateway.xml to vbulletin ./includes/xml/ 
   directory.
5. Configure News server under admincp
6. Configure spam filter under admincp (you can find it in the vbulletin option)
6. Configure VBNntpGateway.ini
7. Launch or shedule VBNntpGateway.exe


NOTE

* This product work on vBulletin 4
* This product require an UTF8 mysql database and vbulletin Forum.
* You must install in windows all the possible message charset to
  be able to convert it to UTF8.
* You can move any thread in vbulletin from one forum to another, 
  the synchronisation will still continue to work with the original 
  USENET newsgroup.
* Html message are not handle (but multipart/alternative message are 
  handled if text/plain part is present)
	
	
TODO

* build_post_index
* Process the attachements