>Anyone doing the above?  We all know about gatewaying an ARPA list, but how
>about a single group (e.g. sci.astro) from USENET (a.k.a. netnews)?
>
>Phil
 
   One of my "dreams" would be a complete two-way gateway between a Usenet
News group and a list...   But, there are some problems.  The basic
requirement of USENET/Netnews news is that every article be uniquely
identified.  There is not unique identification across the LISTSERV lists,
peers, etc.   At least I think all the arguments boil down to this...
   With the flooding algorithm that USENET/Netnews uses you may receive
an article several times.  Your NETNEWS server must be able to know if
it has received it before.  For USENET/Netnews I think they use a combination
of "node" (or host name) and a local sequence number to keep track of
articles...
   If there should be more than one gateway from a listserv list into a
group, then we could get multiple copies of items.  And of course loop
detection would get more interesting, etc...
   I have heard of one person who is supposedly gatewaying stuff.  Also,
there are at least two implementations of "Netnews" for IBM VM systems -
one from Princeton and one from Penn State.  These are discussed in the
list  NETNWS-L@NDSUVM1 on BITNET (note missing e in nws).
   Right now many of the BITNET lists are distributed via netnews on
BITNET Only in groups such as "bit.listserv.lstsrv-l" (where I usually
read this group...).
 
        Marty