Maureen: I don't know that LISTERV has ever actually supported usenet/LISTSERV (what Nathan Brindle used to call "uselessnet") infterfaces. There has been for a long time a hack for doing it, but I don't know that LISTSERV/LSOFT has ever supported it. I know the problems you are talking about with a gateway as one of my lists, for about 6 months, had a usenet/netnews gateway (*I* didn't set it up, a former co-onwer did, without mentioning it in advance, and I hit the roof about it, and then dealt with all the nasty gateway garbage). I also know your list, as I ran it for a month or so for you. Perhaps it is time, Maureen, to make a decision. Is your list going to be a LISTSERV list, or a usenet/netnews bulletin board? The old arguments about the difficulty, or impossibility, or expense, of gaining Internet access no longer hold. I think you need to make a decision about this. Douglas Winship [log in to unmask]