>We have a local Listserv list, ESL-NEWS, that we gateway into a local
>Netnews group. When articles to arrive at Netnews from Listserv, they
>have the line "Newsgroups: bit.listserv.esl-news" in them (which is not
>the group we would want to gateway them to). Neither I (the Netnews
>person) nor our Listserv person nor the list owners understand how the
>Newsgroups line is being added. Any ideas?
'bit.listserv.listname' (in lowercase so as not to upset poor Unix
systems who use a 230-characters ASCII) is the default newsgroup. The
idea is to avoid having to ask the list owner to change the list header
when you want to gateway a new list (this takes time and tends to add
people to your 'hated by' list when they own a lot of lists :-) ). To set
it to something else, just add "Newsgroup= whatever" to the list header.
Eric