>>> People who are bored with EARN political discussions should discard this >>> mail immediately, and accept my apologies for sending this to the list. >on point 3 we reached several agreements, in particular with Bethold Pasch >and IBM ENC management: it is agreed that Berthold continues, at least this >year, its support of EARN tools, including but not restricted to NETSERV. Your style is bettering from day to day: now we receive the progress reports of the various EARN bodies in LSTSRV-L. This reminds me of the day where EARN people had to learn about the newly elected president via BITNEWS. >To conclude, when Jose Maria says: But NOTHING ELSE has been DONE. he is >wrong, and he knows some of the actions we are taking. Believe it or not, when I write something I normally do know what I'm saying, and have good reasons to say it. NOTHING has been done in the area of Eric's paper; if now you're being successful in buying Ulrich and Berthold please don't pretend this has anything to do with "the EARNTECH requirements". You seem to have a fundamental problem to understand that our remarks did apply to a large number of areas, not only to "money" or "contracts", so that I don't find it fair that you dare to say that you're progressing in what we asked when the only (minor) progress is in what you want to understand we asked. Anyway this shall (hopefully) be my last note on the subject in LSTSRV-L. Poor BITNET people should not be affected by all the nonsense that is going on presently on EARN. I will only bother to reply if I see a personal attack (or if I can't resist what's being said :-)). Please do the same and do not invade this list with things it's not intended for. >Alain Auroux Michael Hebgen Jose Maria