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In article <3da6q2$4ni@news.cerf.net>, readingj@nic.cerf.net (John D.
Reading) wrote:
> 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)?

The gateway code in NetNews works well with most Mailing List Managers,
such as Listserv and ListProc. The two requirements for the mailing list
are:

(1) Every post must have a unique Message-ID. If one is present in the
    incoming post, the MLM must pass it through unchanged. If none is
    present, the MLM must generate one.

(2) All posts must appear to come from one consistent address (usually
    OWNER-<listname> but can be any address). Some older MLMs rerouted
    posts so that they appeared to come from the poster instead of the
    list. (This was not desirable since bounce messages are returned to
    the poster, who can't do anything about them, instead of the list 
    owner who can remove the subscription causing the bounces.) I am
    taking here about the Return-Path address, or MAIL FROM: in SMTP.

As long as your MLM meets these two requirements there should be no
problem gateway'ing your list.

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