An interesting side point arises in that Bitnet offically has *one* ARPA gateway; given that there exist at least six gates to ARPA, why don't the network powers seek additional routings? Of course, this requires progress on Bitnet moving to a domain naming scheme and getting the Arpa admin (read: U.S. Government, the same people who bring you Snail Mail) to use those domains for Arpa routing to Bitnet. Drew Derbyshire p.s. *sigh*