People  who had  to 'SERVE  [log in to unmask] OFF'  are invited  to also
'QUIET SERVE [log in to unmask] OFF' (mind the case!). I don't know all
the details  of this name  change (Olivier would,  but he's on  holidays until
monday), basically, this  MINT thing is a kind of  "general CERN gateway" that
performs mail  conversion from/to a  large number of protocols,  allowing CERN
users to talk to each other regardless of racial and religious considerations.
It used to be an 11/750 (or 780, I don't remember), and was so overloaded that
it sometimes  didn't manage  to finish  the "check  everything is  ok" process
started every day  at midnight in 24h,  with the result that  the system would
crash after  a couple weeks  with "maximum  number of processes  exceeded" :-)
DXMINT  is a  new incarnation  of MINT  running on  a MicroVAX,  which doesn't
suffer from  these problems;  I don't  know if  the 'MINT.CERN.CH'  name still
exists, nor do I know whether 'DXMINT' is a permanent name, but I would advise
serving both of them off.
 
  Eric