Hey all!

I was looking at my old bbs backup that had some usenet groups. I exported the message areas over and imported them into the new RnS system and double checked all of the settings. Everything looked ok in SBBSCFG.

I turned to the newslink.cfg file in the CTRL folder. Comcast's news service is LONG gone, so after some googling, I found a free service called 'eternal september.' (www.eternal-september.org) I modified the login info and URL and doubled checked the message areas were still available that I wanted to pull in.

I ran the timed event and it connected, it it started to look good processing the different boards, but at the end it said it exported 0 and imported 0. Here's a snipit of what I saw in the "EVENTS" window:

8/2 06:05:03p BBS Events Semaphore signaled for Timed Event: NEWSLINK
8/2 06:05:03p NEWSLINK Running timed event: NEWSLINK
8/2 06:05:03p NEWSLINK Synchronet NewsLink 1.113 session started
8/2 06:05:03p NEWSLINK server: news.eternal-september.org
8/2 06:05:03p NEWSLINK 0 areas
8/2 06:05:03p NEWSLINK Connecting to news.eternal-september.org port 119 ...
8/2 06:05:04p NEWSLINK Connected
8/2 06:05:04p NEWSLINK Authenticating...
8/2 06:05:04p NEWSLINK Authenticated
8/2 06:05:04p NEWSLINK Scanning 0 message bases...
8/2 06:05:04p NEWSLINK sub: NG-SYNC, newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet
8/2 06:05:04p NEWSLINK NG-SYNC.ini export ptr: 0
8/2 06:05:04p NEWSLINK NG-SYNC.ini import ptr: 38092
8/2 06:05:05p NEWSLINK alt.bbs.synchronet import ptr: 38092, first_msg: 35377, last_msg: 38092
...more of the same for each board...
8/2 06:05:08p NEWSLINK Synchronet NewsLink 1.113 session complete (0 exported, 0 imported)
8/2 06:05:08p NEWSLINK Timed event: NEWSLINK returned 0

Any ideas? Maybe it's a limitation of the service; I still need to dive a bit deeper, or if anyone has a service they like, preferably free, that'd be great too... Thanks in advance!

--rob

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Re: NNTP/Usenet - not pulling messages
By: smooth0401 to All on Wed Aug 02 2023 06:23 pm

I ran the timed event and it connected, it it started to look good processing the different boards, but at the end it said it exported 0 and imported 0. Here's a snipit of what I saw in the "EVENTS" window:

Any ideas? Maybe it's a limitation of the service; I still need to dive a bit deeper, or if anyone has a service they like, preferably free, that'd be great too... Thanks in advance!

From https://wiki.synchro.net/module:newslink:

Remember, if the 'I' flag was not specified (globally or per-newsgroup) in your ctrl/newslink.cfg, then no articles (aka messages) will be imported during the first run and only newly-posted articles will be imported on subsequent runs.
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Re: NNTP/Usenet - not pulling messages
By: Digital Man to smooth0401 on Wed Aug 02 2023 04:58 pm

Thanks for that page... I didn't see the 'i' option in my cfg. (it must be because it's from another version... 3.10 I think it was) I'll see if I can do anything to re-force the initial callout so I get those messages.

--rob

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Re: NNTP/Usenet - not pulling messages
By: smooth0401 to Digital Man on Wed Aug 02 2023 05:52 pm

because it's from another version... 3.10 I think it was) I'll see if I can anything to re-force the initial callout so I get those messages.

So I was able to run the jsexec newslink -ri command to pull in all the original messages.. thanks for your help!

--rob

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