Ah, but there *is* a way to do this safely. You do it on a Unix machine and use Erik Fair's programs. As I have said here before I have a copy of his stuff, it is installed and running fairly well for the couple of test gateways I have set up, AND I have a job from him to do -- to set up gatewaying for ALL of the listserv groups into/outof inet distributed newsgroups. I've looked around on my own and found that doing INDEX ALL at a LISTSERV will return me an almost nice list of the lists. Almost nice because the list name isn't listed on every line -- so to have a program parsing it would take a small amount of extra work (yes, you can all go AAAAWWWWW now, it *does* make the job harder, and the harder the job the less likely I'll be to find the time to do it). I haven't closely looked at the average mail file from a listserv yet to see if Erik's programs will do the right thing. But I beleive they will. All of the major problems are now known to be solvable, so now all that remains is to do it. The problem there is that I will not be here (i.e. at U of KY) in 6 months. I don't want to set up something of this magnitude and then walk away from it, mainly because my replacement is not as experienced as I am. So ... the job remains to be done. Any volunteers? -- <---- David Herron -- The E-Mail guy <[log in to unmask]> <---- ska: David le casse\*' ¤rutgers,uunet‡!ukma!david, [log in to unmask] <---- <---- Today is the yesterday you worried about tomorrow.