The gateway at American.Edu is the *big* one from which many places get the list feed. However, a lot of places have their own, local gateways, and some of them style them as NetNews, but they are generally purely local. How well they work depends on how well they are set up. If one of them is causing you trouble you can always get rid of it. Douglas Douglas Winship Hays County, Texas [log in to unmask] Secondary AUTOCAT Listowner MEDLAB-L