John:

I think you've mixed and matched issues of a mail-to-X gateway and its
various clinet viewer attributes, and the ability of said gateway to push
messages onto the e-mail list.

The problems of SPAM from a gateway to an e-mail list probably don't change
much from platform to platform.

Many only have a one-way gate: from the mail list to the gate.

What are the well-supported HTTP implementations of e-mail lists that
process at nearly the speed of the mail distribution itself?  I am only
somewhat familar with L-Soft's mail-to-HTTP mail archive gateway, but don't
know the time-delay.

I consider the HTTP a "pull" technology; Usenet (Netnews) somewhat a
hybrid, but mostly "push;" and e-mail a "push."

At 13:57 7/25/97 -0600, you wrote:
|We have had a gateway to the Newsgroups for several years now on Museum-L.
This
|gateway was setup so that users could access the postings with having their
|e-mail box fill up.
|
|With the new browsers such as Netscape and Navigator being able to download
|mail from a server, sort by threads, filter messages, etc., I am wondering if
|the concept of a gateway to the Newsgroups is even viable anymore. Add on the
|SPAM factor, I would estimate that 90% of the SPAM to the list originates
from
|the Newsgroup, and the SPAM filter with Listserv manages to catch 99% of the
|attempted SPAM postings.