What news2mail.com was

news2mail.com was a free service, run from 2000 to roughly 2004, that delivered Usenet newsgroups by e-mail: pick a group, submit an address, receive the traffic. It also kept simple directory pages — one per newsgroup — describing each group and listing ways to read it.

The gateway itself is long retired, and this site does not attempt to revive it: nothing here accepts subscriptions, and no mail is sent. What survives is the part the web actually linked to — the directory. University course pages, library subject guides and internet-history references still point at these addresses, and this restoration keeps those citations resolving to honest descriptions of the groups they cite.

The current maintainers have no connection to the original operator. Where a page describes a group, the description is new editorial text written for this archive; the original one-line group charters are preserved where they were recorded.