Most Usenet newsgroups do not correspond to any mailing list, so the
     conventional answer to this question is "no" for most groups.  However,
     there are some newsgroups that are gatewayed to mailing lists.  For a
     list of them, see the "List of Active Newsgroups" or the "Mailing Lists
     Available in Usenet" postings in news.lists.misc.

     If you know a Usenet site admin who is willing to act as a personal
     gateway for you, you might be able to get him/her to set up his/her
     system to forward messages from individual newsgroups to you via
     E-mail.  However, most admins don't like to do this because it adds
     to the outgoing traffic from their site, so DO NOT post messages to
     the net saying, "Hey, is there someone willing to gateway newsgroups
     to me?"

     In general, if you can receive Usenet newsgroups by any means other
     than e-mail, you should!  Usenet volume is such that any centralized
     service that tries to convert from news to email is easily
     overloaded.

     There is a freely available service that allows you to access
     newsgroups by e-mail.

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