On Sun, 17 Aug 1997 08:32:02 -0400 Roger Burns said: >Listserv Manager <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> The good news however is >> that I've heard (unconfirmed hearsay follows) that most standard INN >> newsservers have the ability to do the gatewaying. It's included as a >> function of the software. > >Are you saying that all INN newsservers may have the capability of >becoming GLOBAL mail2news gateways? Yes. That is what I was told by the Usenet sysadmins on news.admins anyway. It does make sense - the INN server only needs to receive the message via email and post it to the appropriate group. Once posted to a group, normal Usenet operations take care of distrubuting the post to the rest of the Usenet news servers in the world. Doing the reverse is as simple - it looks for a post in the group that receives from other servers and sends it via email to whatever address is specified.