Margaret- I was hoping you'd chime in on this subject. You know far more about newsgroups and the newsgroup gateway than I do. Joan In a message dated 8/20/2012 1:05:09 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, olson@shout.net writes: At 07:53 PM 8/19/2012, JYoung6180@aol.com wrote: >Don't quote me on this...I'm sure others know better than I do but I >believe that it may be a means of handling messages for the lists that are >newsgroup gatewayed to RootsWeb lists. (This isn't the same as the >Message Board >gateway for those who might get confused.) Mailman (or whatever we use now) does have a function for doing this and it does it, but I doubt this is the explanation for newsfeed.rootsweb.com archiving those posts. The name made me wonder, too so I checked yesterday with Google and found a great many messages archived there which did not go to or from a Usenet newsgroup. There are fewer than 30 lists which mirror Usenet newsgroups. Margaret