>take it easy - it's a typo. When I talked about it at nog, you bet that >I did not say that they were taken out entirely from the p.n. file. Ok, let's forget about this typo and do as if the minutes had said "have been removed from the backbone". Now, both Christian and myself asked a very precise question, if I remember correctly. The minutes went on to say that this removal was causing problems, and the proposed text of the question the EARN Executive was to ask the BITNET BoT said that this was causing unnecessary remedial work for the personnel of the server sites. Now, for the sake of the operation of this network, I am asking again for a description of the nature of these alleged problems, and of the unacceptable remedial work in question. I believe I have described with enough accuracy the problems that were caused by the 3 sites in question having outdated tables (if not, I can give more details). If the removal that solved these problems is indeed causing more serious problems than the ones it solved, I need to know which ones and why, in order to avoid worsening the situation of the network in the future, should this happens again. If the person who mentioned these "problems" during the meeting did so just for the sake of dramatizing the situation, when in fact these problems are only imaginary, I would like him to step forward and to say so (and I am not even asking for an apology). Eric