Just a few quick facts about ARPA mailing lists: 1) The default gateway is WISCVM which doesn't know about MAILER. 2) There exists a gate at UCBVAX that *does* know about MAILER. However, this machine is only a VAX 750 and already loaded as a major gateway hub. 3) We are 4 hops from WISCVM, and are willing to create a LISTSERV list *if* we have at least one local subscriber. I'm not sure we can run lists for only non-Clarkson people. Eric: Is there a way to tell LISTSERV to run some lists only at off-peak hours? If so, that would help a lot to add more lists. 4) Now for the *REAL* stickey point. We are getting in a Milnet/Arpanet gate here in the next few months. I contacted Saul Jaffe, moderator of SF-Lovers, about creating a re-distribution list for it here to serve the UCONNVM branch of Bitnet, but he was not interested. It seems he has gotten burnt fairly badly with re-distribution lists, and doesn't have the time to track down where a particular issue went awry. I'm personally in favor of distributing any lists via LISTSERV. My personal first choices to run are SF-Lovers, Unix-Wizards, and Unix-Sources, mostly because (a) they tend to be large and (b) I already subscribe to them :-) Valdis Kletnieks