Thomas, what are you talking about? A piece of mail sent to BOUNCE-L%ERRORBOX@yournode is, in most cases, delivered to BOUNCE-L@yournode via NJE. Of course, there is a minority of BITNET nodes and gateways which will transfer this note to your V2 mailer, which will then send it to the proper place, but in most cases, this will land in the reader of BOUNCE-L (which is 8 characters long). If the list was ABC-L, it would be posted to the userid 'ABC-L%ER'. Now, how are you going to handle that? And, by the way. I have made up my mind on the business of giving 1.6a to EARN. I am not spending any time on this. I am merely waiting for the EARN officials to come back from vacations/wake up/remember their logon passwords. Since that takes very little of my time, I spend the rest playing cards while waiting for a VAX to stop telling me "Maximum number of users exceeded, <censored> and die", or to compile/linkedit a 50-lines PASCAL program (takes 30 minutes), or for DECNET to copy the executable to another, dedicated VAX (the one on which we run the code - unfortunately it can't do the compilation, as it doesn't have enough disk space to store all the junk that this requires). My boss appears to hope that we will be able to setup a fast link to that VAX with similar performance as the one we developed for the Apollo workstations (1Mbyte/sec disk-to-disk), using the same hardware. I doubt that the dedicated VAX will ever be able to exceed the 280k/sec memory-to-memory that we're getting today, but I've been told to try. Eric