Alex van Denzel <bitbucket@adenzel.demon.nl> wrote:
> If the admin of that gateway has the newsgroup on the public network,
> I'd 
> like to subscribe to it. Browsing newsgroups is less bandwith consuming 
> than downloading *all* messages (with my 28.800 modem).

You can use the web based archives at:
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-vax/

However, I agree that a (working) mail<->news gateway would be nice -
something like the comp.os.vms<->Info-vax setup.