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* Bill White <billw@wolfram.com> writes:

> Is it possible to have my employer's news server (some standard-issue
> thing, I suppose) to automatically send to me via email all new
> articles it receives in certain groups?

Yes. http://www.google.com/search?q=news2mail&num=100

> I'm working from home and it's painfully slow to read news via modem.
> If there's some way to get those messages by email I'd, well, I'd
> spend lots more time in Gnus :-)

If you have to get those news anyway, why don't you set up a local
newsserver? Preferrably using UUCP to save bandwidth?