hi all. wondering if anyone else has seen this post from Hershel Browne made to the bit.admin newsgroup last month. i've made the request to switch over to a newsguy gateway, and am curious to know ... has anyone had a gateway set up by newsguy.com yet? BTW -- *thank you* to herschel browne, and (needless to say) to jim mcintosh before him, for service waay above and beyond the call. maureen (hwy61-l) >Subject: Gateway: Announcement from American University >From: [log in to unmask] (Herschel Browne) >Date: 1998/06/04 >Message-ID: <[log in to unmask]> >Newsgroups: bit.admin > >To the long-suffering users of the American University >gateway: Yes, I know the gateway has been broken for a couple >of days. We're experiencing space problems, and it should be >up again tomorrow. > >However, another party has declared that they are both >willing and able to provide gateway services, as of now. >While I can make no guarantees as to the quality of service >they will provide, Mike D'Alessandro, with whom I have >corresponded, seems like a generous and capable person, >and believes that he can provide this service dependably >and at no charge to those interested in making use of it. >American University will continue to provide gateway service >on an "as is" basis, if you'll forgive the euphemism, until >such time as all active users have migrated to the gateway >provided by Mike and his organization ("newsguy"). > >I am appending the most recent email exchange between Mike >and myself by way of explanation. I am posting this to >bit.admin and nowhere else. Please pass this information >along as you see fit to those persons or listserv lists >most interested in the subject. > >Herschel Browne [log in to unmask] >Director, Network Software >American University > > >==============included email follows ================================= > >Date: Mon, 01 Jun 1998 08:54:17 -0700 >To: Herschel Browne <[log in to unmask]> >From: Mike <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Re: News/Listserv Gateway >In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]> >References: <Your message of Sun, 31 May 1998 14:07:33 -0700> >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > >Hi Herschel, > >Thanks for your reply, and posting my address to this newsgroup wouldn't be >a problem at all. If users would like to check further into our service, >you can also refer them to our sites at the following addresses: > > Basic Newsguy - http://www.newsguy.com > Extra Newsguy - http://extra.newsguy.com > >And then just to clarify, we will be able to provide gateway support for >facilitating messages from list-to-news and vice-versa. > >I appreciate you working through this with me, and hopefully we can help >some folks out with this. > >Best Regards, > >Mike > > >At 08:07 PM 5/31/98 EDT, you wrote: >>On Sun, 31 May 1998 14:07:33 -0700 you said: >> >>>I appreciate your reply, as this clarifies everything for us. I was under >>>the assumption that you were also facilitating the listserv part of this >>>for the different lists. We already have a setup to support listservs, but >>>if we had to support it as well as the gateway, this may have incurred some >>>sort of cost. >> >>Great! This sounds like it might really work out for a lot of folks. >> >>>If we just need to provide the gateways for these, to support list-to-news >>>and vice-versa, we can do all of it at no charge. This would be similar to >>>JewishGen, although we're just providing the list-to-news part for them. >>> >>>With this, if you'd like to put those interested in touch with me, we can >>>get them started for setup when they're ready. >> >>May I post your email address on bit.admin, the newsgroup where >>people congregate to complain about us? (Actually, they're very >>nice, and appreciative of the fact that we've provided this >>service for nearly ten years at no charge.) >> >>Again, thank you ten million times for your willingness to >>take this on. It's a service that I feel is of great benefit >>to the worldwide Internet community, and am proud of having >>had a part in, and regret our inability to support in the future. >> >>yours, >> >>Herschel >>