Do you know if the news gateway is actually supposed to work? Well, not for a fact, personally; I haven't looked at gnu newsgroups in a long time.
However, Justin indicated that it was all fallout from the broken/readonly configurations, and indeed, after he made the restores, I reenabled the cron job and it worked again. So that is good. (I added a filter to avoid getting mail every five minutes that 99.9% of the lists have no news gateway.) Best, karl
