>I've seen a few messages recently about making mail from a list appear at
>a subscriber's Internet site as a pseudo-news group.
 
Perhaps you're referring to something outside my experience, but I believe
you're talking about a making a bit.listserv mirror of your list.  Nothing
pseudo about it. It's a newsgroup and will be distributed with all the other
Usenet/Netnews traffic.  Info can be found at
http://wings.buffalo.edu/computing/listserv/owner/gateway.html
or bit.admin
 
You subscribe [log in to unmask] after they've started things at their end.
You don't have to rely on american.edu, or anyone else to gate your list.
You could roll your own alt.* group and gate messages any way you wanted.
 
There is a downside to this.  Unless you want to review every post that
comes in via the gateway, you'll be opening a door to spam.  The spam will
be cancelled from the newsgroup, eventually, but it will be too late to
avoid automatic distribution.  In practice I'd say that this results in one
spam every couple weeks, though frequency varies wildly.  The recent clamp
down on spam over Usenet is making e-mail spam more frequent than newsgroup
spam.  American.edu can go down without warning for days at a time, and the
speed of transfer will vary wildly.  It may take awhile for individual
Usenet nodes to start carrying your group.  Individuals may have to make
special requests of their sysadmins to include the group in their newsfeed.
Basically, you get what you pay for.
 
Mike Holloway
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