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Hello,

My name is Keith Boyer and I work for the Computer and Information
Science department at the Ohio State University.  We have for many
years, gatewayed the gnu mailing-lists into the appropriate gnu
newsgroups and vice-versa.  We have also supported two of the
mailing-lists, gnu-misc-discuss and info-gnus-english.

Due to changes in the department priorities we must eliminate these
activities.  I have attempted for several months to find people that
would like to take over these activities so that there would be no
observable changes in functionality.  I have not been able to find
anyone willing to do so.

The time has now come that I must eliminate these services.  Over the
next couple of weeks I will be removing the gatewaying.  Sometime after
that I will be contacting all the people that read gnu-misc-discuss and
info-gnus-english mailing-lists and finding a home for those
mailing-lists.

For many people this will not be a big deal, since the news groups
continue and the mailing-lists continue as before, just not gatewayed
together.  The gateway code and configuration has never been that robust
and I have received email complaints and recommendations to enhance the
gatewaying.  We have not had the resources to make these improvements.

If anyone is interested in picking up these activities I would be happy
to provide copies of the relevant configuration files (newsfeeds,
/etc/mail/aliases).  The configurations were set up long before I got
here, so there is a limit to how much I can explain about the design.

If you wish to pick this up then please send mail to
keith@cis.ohio-state.edu.

I am sorry that this is necessary, however, there is no other
alternative.