At 05:18 PM 1/17/97 GMT, you wrote: > >I don't know how others do it, but I added a special E-mail address to >my list that is set to appropriate options (e.g. NOACK,NORENEW). I then >have a procmail script that converts the messages to an inews-compatible >form and then forwards it to the newsgroup via inews. I don't go the >other way because to do so would risk the integrity of the list. > My God, that's it!!!! THAT'S how you run a gatewayed mailing list and still keep subscriber control... Oh mi gosh, my brain is reeling from the implications... Have Usenet "subscribers" sign up with NOMAIL set; when they read the list via Usenet, instead of "followup", they select "reply via email" and send to the list. Wow... Philo -- ====================================================================== Philo || [log in to unmask] || Due to a system error, 2E GULC <*> || Eudora cannot display a .sig http://www.radix.net/~philo || ======================================================================