I'm the netnews administrator of ucbvax, the main netnews system at the University of California at Berkeley. We also operate the largest mailing list to netnews newsgroup gateway here, primarily for ARPA Internet mailing lists. If I can get a reasonable guarantee that there will be no LISTSERV brain-damage (explanation provided upon request), I can bi-directionally gateway SAS-L to a "normal" USENET newsgroup. I have control of the "inet" distribution, which is a netnews distribution containing ARPA Internet mailing lists in netnews newsgroups. I can arbitrarily create any newsgroup in that distribution. Once I've created the newsgroup in the inet distribution, I'm sure that the regular USENET backbone will pick it up too, since there is considerable overlap. I understand that SAS is a statistical package of some kind - does it have a particular focus like SPSS? Who are the primary users of SAS? I need to know a little about it so that I can pick a good name for the newsgroup. Erik E. Fair ucbvax!fair [log in to unmask]