hi all.

wondering if anyone else has seen this post from Hershel Browne
made to the bit.admin newsgroup last month.

i've made the request to switch over to a newsguy gateway, and am
curious to know ...

has anyone had a gateway set up by newsguy.com yet?

BTW -- *thank you* to herschel browne, and (needless to say)
to jim mcintosh before him, for service waay above and beyond the call.

maureen
(hwy61-l)


>Subject:      Gateway: Announcement from American University
>From:         [log in to unmask] (Herschel Browne)
>Date:         1998/06/04
>Message-ID:   <[log in to unmask]>
>Newsgroups:   bit.admin
>
>To the long-suffering users of the American University
>gateway: Yes, I know the gateway has been broken for a couple
>of days. We're experiencing space problems, and it should be
>up again tomorrow.
>
>However, another party has declared that they are both
>willing and able to provide gateway services, as of now.
>While I can make no guarantees as to the quality of service
>they will provide, Mike D'Alessandro, with whom I have
>corresponded, seems like a generous and capable person,
>and believes that he can provide this service dependably
>and at no charge to those interested in making use of it.
>American University will continue to provide gateway service
>on an "as is" basis, if you'll forgive the euphemism, until
>such time as all active users have migrated to the gateway
>provided by Mike and his organization ("newsguy").
>
>I am appending the most recent email exchange between Mike
>and myself by way of explanation. I am posting this to
>bit.admin and nowhere else. Please pass this information
>along as you see fit to those persons or listserv lists
>most interested in the subject.
>
>Herschel Browne   [log in to unmask]
>Director, Network Software
>American University
>
>
>==============included email follows =================================
>
>Date: Mon, 01 Jun 1998 08:54:17 -0700
>To: Herschel Browne <[log in to unmask]>
>From: Mike <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: News/Listserv Gateway
>In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]>
>References: <Your message of Sun, 31 May 1998 14:07:33 -0700>
>Mime-Version: 1.0
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>
>Hi Herschel,
>
>Thanks for your reply, and posting my address to this newsgroup wouldn't be
>a problem at all. If users would like to check further into our service,
>you can also refer them to our sites at the following addresses:
>
>        Basic Newsguy - http://www.newsguy.com
>        Extra Newsguy - http://extra.newsguy.com
>
>And then just to clarify, we will be able to provide gateway support for
>facilitating messages from list-to-news and vice-versa.
>
>I appreciate you working through this with me, and hopefully we can help
>some folks out with this.
>
>Best Regards,
>
>Mike
>
>
>At 08:07 PM 5/31/98 EDT, you wrote:
>>On Sun, 31 May 1998 14:07:33 -0700 you said:
>>
>>>I appreciate your reply, as this clarifies everything for us. I was under
>>>the assumption that you were also facilitating the listserv part of this
>>>for the different lists. We already have a setup to support listservs, but
>>>if we had to support it as well as the gateway, this may have incurred some
>>>sort of cost.
>>
>>Great! This sounds like it might really work out for a lot of folks.
>>
>>>If we just need to provide the gateways for these, to support list-to-news
>>>and vice-versa, we can do all of it at no charge. This would be similar to
>>>JewishGen, although we're just providing the list-to-news part for them.
>>>
>>>With this, if you'd like to put those interested in touch with me, we can
>>>get them started for setup when they're ready.
>>
>>May I post your email address on bit.admin, the newsgroup where
>>people congregate to complain about us? (Actually, they're very
>>nice, and appreciative of the fact that we've provided this
>>service for nearly ten years at no charge.)
>>
>>Again, thank you ten million times for your willingness to
>>take this on. It's a service that I feel is of great benefit
>>to the worldwide Internet community, and am proud of having
>>had a part in, and regret our inability to support in the future.
>>
>>yours,
>>
>>Herschel
>>