>As the owner of over 20 lists and a heavy LISTSERV and USENET user, I >would vote for having no default Newsgroup= value. The list owner should >be aware that their list is being gatewayed into USENET and so should be >responsible for putting in the appropriate Newsgroup= field and also >setting the Send= Public field (this last field change allows users to >Post to the list from a USENET newsreader program). Sorry Jim, but I disagree. First, when I had to change LSTSRV-L it took me one week. Because there are 8 peers, and because the network is far from being as efficient as snail-mail, in a number of "problem" cases which, unfortunately, always hit you on the back of the neck (because of Murphy's law). Second, as a list owner what do I do if someone asks me for permission to gateway his list into USENET? Frankly, I don't know what it is, but I suspect it's going to be dangerous, so I'll ask someone, who will say he doesn't know, and then I'll ask someone else, and eventually LSTSRV-L or some other list, and a lot of people will say it's great, some others will warn me that it can be dangerous and create loops, after 2 weeks I still won't have made up my mind. And all that you need is an end-user subscription to the list to make a USENET gateway, so why should the list owner have to be involved, except in special cases? Eric