>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