Gee, I've *HAD* a strong dislike of VAX clusters for a while now for this very exact reason. Actually the problem is not DEC's, it is Joiner's by they way JNET was designed. To avoid having to search for where a user was logged in to deliver interactive messages, said messages are handled as if the cluster were not a cluster. Enqueueing mail was not as hard. Now if they could make a "cluster" appear to all system programs as if it were truly one node............