I've been thinking about opening a gateway between SCREEN-L and Netnews. Netnews is a bulletin board system in which articles on a variety of topics are arranged in "newsgroups" and stored in a shared location from which individual users can read them. These newsgroups can be shared with other sites to form a world-wide bulletin board system called Usenet. If we were to connect SCREEN-L with Netnews it would mean that SCREEN-L would appear on Usenet as a newsgroup named bit.listserv.screen-l. (There are already newsgroups called bit.listserv.cinema-l and bit.listserv.film-l.) Persons who have access to Usenet could then subscribe to bit.listserv.screen-l and read all the messages posted on SCREEN-L, without going through the normal LISTSERV subscription process and having their name placed on the SCREEN-L subscription list. Usenet patron could also post messages on SCREEN-L, by sending them through this gateway. Usenet is an immense, international bulletin board system. If we were to gate into it it might increase the volume of messages on SCREEN-L, but it would also extend SCREEN-L's reach to persons who might not normally subscribe to a LISTSERV. Anyway, it's an idea I'm toying with. Any thoughts pro or con? --Jeremy Jeremy Butler SCREEN-L Coordinator [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask]