On 19/06/2019 20.35, Malcolm wrote:
On Wed, 19 Jun 2019 20:06:19 +0200 "Carlos E. R." <> wrote:
On 19/06/2019 19.59, Malcolm wrote:
On Wed, 19 Jun 2019 19:35:30 +0200 "Carlos E. R." <> wrote:
Hi Just a word of caution, please use the information for your testing, sure, but any importing will need to be done via vB as the data you have is not compliant with GDPR.
Oh. Please expand on that, I don't understand. What is vB? Hi vB is an abbreviation of vBulliten (the forum software) ;)
Oops. Should have known. :-)
Why is it not compliant? It is a public server and the messages were posted by people that knew the posts were going to be published. There are no read access controls.
Users have asked under GDPR for their information to be deleted, so in vB their signatures are emptied and all of their posts are set to 'Guest'. Since the gateway has run, these posts are on the nntp side and still contain that information they asked to be deleted....
Oh :-o
You mean that we have to create the nntp server empty of messages, ignore all the existing messages? It is certainly easier to do.
Yes, that would be my suggestion, just the structure, get the gateway working to vB (or what ever forum software is going to be used going forward) and populate, this will also pull in the ones requested to be removed as 'Guest'.
I think the first step would be to get the structure (I think that the nntp side has some groups that were removed or renamed later, so better get the actual list from the web side and possibly change names if needed, now that there is a chance. Set up some test group and verify that it works, independently. Possibly add authentication? Then add the GW, test it on test group, then populate the rest.
The ongoing challenge as I see it will be how to remove references and signatures on the nntp side, but changed on the forum side....
As long as the posts are copied from the web side, they will be correct, no?
Then there are the Forum staff spam tools as well for canceling messages so they are deleted on the nntp side.
Ah, messages that are deleted later. Yes, inn can do that. If the interface is standard, they should work. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.0 x86_64 at Telcontar)