Jason:

I stand by what I said in the context of my understanding of the question
and the questioner.

Furthermore, you make several implicit assumptions about network access of
the subscribers which I do not think relates to the issues at hand.

Again, SEARCH THE ARCHIVES:

http://eva.dc.lsoft.com/scripts/wa.exe?S2=lstown-l&q=american+gateway&s=&f=&
a=may+1997&b=

There are 20 matches since May.

/Pete

|        To me it seems that this person does not want to set up the
|newsgroup as a bitserv (I think that is what American gateways to),
|list, but taking an existing newsgroup (local), and gatewaying it
|(localy), to the mailing list.  If the newsgroup is only distributed
|localy (or to a small area), then one advantage to having it gated to
|a mailing list is that when a person moves away from those machines
|they can still recieve (and write) to the newsgroup.  That probably
|isn't the only advantage to having the same content both in a
|newsgroup and a mailing list...