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	Just to clarify some points about the gateway proposal for
Blues-l.

	The name of the newsgroup would be bit.listserv.blues-l.

	It's not correct to say that blues gave birth to jazz, as I
implied.  The two forms of music evolved in the same time, place, and
culture, so perhaps they are fraternal twins.  That's for the 
historians to argue.
 
     The one-way link setup for mailist and newsgroup proved unsatisfactory
and dysfunctional in several respects.  So the bitnet administration came
up with a much better arrangement to achieve the same results.
 
        In a recent post regarding another RFD [see above], Jim McIntosh
explained the "list moderated newsgroup" concept this way:
 
     "What I do think is a fine idea are moderated newsgroups. You can     
either have some human be moderator to review of posts you might get     
from the Usenet side, or (even better) you have the posts sent to the     
list address. Then, if the piles of posts you fear (but most probably     
won't see) actually occur you always have the option of setting the     
list to 'Send= Private'. This will block posts from people who are not     
on the list, but with a nice message telling them why. This also     
allows your subscribers who prefer to read and post from news to set     
themselves to 'NOMAIL' and still be able to post from the newsgroup     
side."
 
        For BLUES-L, we are proposing the latter of Jim McIntosh's two
moderating options -- that is, the list would be the moderator for the
newsgroup. There would be no direct human moderator.  But since the LIST is
the moderator and the filters based on listserver settings, the Listowner
is ultimately in control of all message traffic.  This implements the basic
idea of a newsgroup which is a "mirror" of a list.

	Hope this clarifies things.

	Robert Teeter
	rteeter@netcom.com