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Also known as: mail-to-news, mail2news
A service that accepts an email message and injects it into a newsgroup, letting people post without an NNTP-capable server or a news account. Anonymous remailers commonly chained into one so a message reached Usenet carrying no identifying path. Because the gateways were easy to abuse for spam, most were shut down or restricted; a small number still operate for specific hierarchies.
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