>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 [log in to unmask]