Subj : Synch & phpBB?
To   : Time Warrior
From : Chickenhead
Date : Thu Jun 30 2005 05:59 am

  Re: Synch & phpBB?
  By: Time Warrior to Chickenhead on Wed Jun 29 2005 05:39 pm

 > From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet
 > 
 >   To: Chickenhead
 >   Re: Synch & phpBB?
 >   By: Chickenhead to All on Tue Jun 28 2005 02:51 pm
 > 
 >  > Hi Folks:
 > 
 >  > I'm in the process of putting together a Synchronet BBS.  My co-conspirat
 >  > unfortunately favors phpBB over Synchronet's current web interface.
 > 
 >  > I understand that it may be possible to link the two using something call
 >  > NewsSynch (a phpBB module that exports a phpBB over NNTP).  Has anyone tr
 >  > this?  Does it work okay?
 > 
 >  > What would be NICE would be a phpBB module that talks QWK..but I doubt su
 >  > creature exists...
 > 
 > The module is called newssync and I have it. Your welcome to a copy *HOWEVER
 > it only works on Linux. If you are going to go this route and run a windows
 > machine -- find a linux webhost with mysql support and who is nice enough to
 > setup a cron job for the polling event, and have like
 > http://forums.yourbbs.com or whatever.
 > 
 > If you can manage all that, newssync then can poll your Synchronet nntp.
 > 
 
Fortunately it's all going to be run on Linux so there shouldn't be a problem
(I hope).  I do have a copy of NewsSync 1.5.0betasomething..is there a more
recent version?  

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