Better Newsgroups v1.0.0

First release.

Added

• Two-way newsgroup/forum gateway as a Major BBS v10 module (SNBETNWS).
• NNTP client with AUTHINFO login, TLS and STARTTLS, run on a background thread.
• Import of articles into forums: MIME and character set decoding to CP437, threading by References, the article's own date, long articles split into parts, too-large articles as a notice.
• Export of forum messages as UTF-8 articles with References, signature, Organization, and optional post key.
• Message-ID cross-reference (SNBETMID.DAT) so nothing is imported twice and the BBS's own posts are recognized.
• Outgoing queue with retries, give-up time, and a BBS e-mail notice to the author when a post fails.
• Online Sysop menu: settings, newsgroup links, check now, outgoing posts list.
• "Articles for a new group" accepts up to 9999999, or ALL for every article the server still has; a large backlog is read over several checks.
• BNFETCH test tool and BNTEST unit tests.

Installation

1. Download Better-Newsgroups-v1.0.0.zip below.
2. Copy SNBETNWS.DLL, SNBETNWS.MDF, SNBETNWS.MSG and SNBETNWS.RLN to the BBS directory.
3. Add Better Newsgroups to a Sysop menu with the Menu Tree Editor, then restart the BBS.

See the README for setup and settings.