🚀 go-pugleaf

I have a large, well established mailing list named Llajta, which
is a discussion list regarding the country Bolivia and all things
Bolivian.  We recently (yesterday) got a newsgroup, soc.culture.bolivia,
passed.  During the process of getting the newsgroup voted on I
promised to provide a bi-directional gateway between the list and
the group, as I believed I would have news running on my machine
before the group was ready.  Well, the group is here, and I am not
even close to having news posting capability from my own machine
(I am posting this from a dial-in account).  By coincidence, today
I was made aware of the news gating service which appears to be
related to this newsgroup.  Since I am new to this particular area
I don't know a lot of the ground rules, but it sounds as if the
gateway services described in the document bit/policy are exactly
what I would like for my mailing list and the newsgroup.  So, my
questions:

1) Can a bidirectional gateway be established between the mailing list
Llajta (llajta@io.dsd.litton.com) and the newsgroup soc.culture.bolivia
*without* a group bit.listserv.llajta (I have no need for the latter)?

2) What else (besides posting this message and waiting a week, then
sending a message to news-admin@american.edu) would I need to do to
establish the gateway?

Thanks for any and all help, even if it is to tell me that I have
badly misunderstood something and need to get off this group ;-)

John Reading
readingj@cerf.net
reading@io.dsd.litton.com