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.

Any thoughts our ideas on this?

thanks

john chadwick
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