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In article <3chvfu$92s@netnews.upenn.edu>, jlupton@mail2.sas.upenn.edu
(John Lupton) wrote:
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> 3) At the request of Frank Godbey and with the approval of the system
> administrator of the host machine (ukcc.uky.edu), I am seeking to
> establish a *uni-directional* gateway site to allow net users with USENET 
> access the ability to read postings to BGRASS-L, but not respond. Only 
> users who are subscribed to the list through normal listserv procedures 
> will be able to post to the list or respond to posts.

I do not think the uni-directional gateways are a good idea. They are
counter to the way Usenet operates, and the average Usenet reader will
not understand they cannot post -- or rather that they can post but only
a subset of the particpants (those who read on Usenet) will see their
post. You'll end up with three groups of participants: those who subscribe
to the list who will only see things posted to the list; those who read
the newsgroup (and therefore see everything) and who post to the list
(and therefore everyone can read their posts); and those who read and
post to the newsgroup (who can see everything but only post to a subset
of the people).

A better solution is to establish a moderated gateway, and specify the
list address as the moderator address. This will cause ALL posts (from
both subscribers and news people) to come to the list address. If you
then set the list to "Send= Private" posts from list subscribers will 
be distributed and posts from all others will be returned with a note
(which you can customize in your MAILTPL file). This tell them why their
post was not distributed, and how to join the list (and set their
subscription to NOMAIL) if they want to join the discussions.

Jim McIntosh (jim@american.edu)
The American University
Washington, DC USA 20016-8019