Tuesday, July 18, 2006

Invision Power Board NNTP Gateway

Way back in 2003 I wrote an NNTP gateway for the Invision Power Board forum software we wrote. At the time Invsion Power Board was at version 1.1.something.

This morning, having been woken by noisy cats at 4.30AM and not being able to sleep again, I was browsing the web, found my old piece of software and felt terribly guilty. You see, I've been bad ...

I've been keeping the software up-to-date. Each time Rhodes updates its copy of Invsion Power Board (running http://forums.ru.ac.za/), I've made the changes necessary to my gateway to keep up. We're now running version 2.1.7 and the thing still works. I haven't, however, made any of those changes public. Bad Guy.

In an effort to redeem myself I've packaged up the current version and made it available on the Interweb. It can be downloaded from {ftp,http}://ftp.rucus.ru.ac.za/users/guy/invgateway-1.7.tar.gz. Posting might be broken in this version — we don't really use it so I haven't tested it against the new versions of the board.

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