John: I think you've mixed and matched issues of a mail-to-X gateway and its various clinet viewer attributes, and the ability of said gateway to push messages onto the e-mail list. The problems of SPAM from a gateway to an e-mail list probably don't change much from platform to platform. Many only have a one-way gate: from the mail list to the gate. What are the well-supported HTTP implementations of e-mail lists that process at nearly the speed of the mail distribution itself? I am only somewhat familar with L-Soft's mail-to-HTTP mail archive gateway, but don't know the time-delay. I consider the HTTP a "pull" technology; Usenet (Netnews) somewhat a hybrid, but mostly "push;" and e-mail a "push." At 13:57 7/25/97 -0600, you wrote: |We have had a gateway to the Newsgroups for several years now on Museum-L. This |gateway was setup so that users could access the postings with having their |e-mail box fill up. | |With the new browsers such as Netscape and Navigator being able to download |mail from a server, sort by threads, filter messages, etc., I am wondering if |the concept of a gateway to the Newsgroups is even viable anymore. Add on the |SPAM factor, I would estimate that 90% of the SPAM to the list originates from |the Newsgroup, and the SPAM filter with Listserv manages to catch 99% of the |attempted SPAM postings.