Re: the group

I wouldn't consider gatewaying nanog into usenet land (even one way) to be the world most constructive exercise...

I do. I read NANOG in a private local newsgroup. It only works one-way -- to post, I have to send mail to nanog@merit.edu and so my address has to be entered on the nanog-post list. KILL files are wonderful. /etc/aliases says: local-mail-net-nanog: |"/news/local/mailpost -d local local.mail.net.nanog" i've put a copy of "mailpost" at http://www.vix.com/~vixie/mailpost.txt. it's really a perl script, 324 lines long, written by me back in 1992 or so.