The following backbone nodes have not yet installed 1.5j: - IRISHVM: Nick Laflamme has graduated and he's left IRISHVM. I'm removing IRISHVM from the backbone until 1.5j gets installed there. - CANADA01: Kent Percival gave me the userid of someone I could contact during his holidays if there was something urgent to do on LISTSERV. As I don't think that installing 1.5j is really urgent (ie I'd rather wait for Kent to do it himself than ask someone who doesn't know LISTSERV to take care of it), I didn't contact this person. CANADA01 will remain in the backbone. - UALTAVM: LISTSERV has been installed very recently there. Maybe it should be removed from the backbone until it gets straightened up (it's still running with the march version of BITEARN NODES)? - PSUVM: I would very much like to see PSUVM upgrading to 1.5j and installing the july version of BITEARN NODES so that I can start testing DIST2 on the new backbone. I would nonetheless like to thank PSUVM for becoming part of the backbone, and I hope CUNYVM will reconsider their decision to withdraw from it. By the way I would like to say that I have never had any problem with the BITNIC LISTSERV, except for the fact that it seems impossible to convince EDUCOM that a list is supposed to be *peered* not centralized. Ricky has always been very cooperative and always installed updates in due time. Thanks, guy :-) Eric