On Mon, 15 Nov 1993 11:27:49 -0600 Fred Kemp <[log in to unmask]> said: >Furthermore, with the announced termination of backbone service by USC >and Cornell in July, the entire future of Bitnet is extremely doubtful. USC has already left the core, and was replaced with ARIZVM1. I didn't know that Cornell was leaving BITNET. I'm not saying it's not true, just that I have not heard about it. >There is not enough computational resources to continue LISTSERV traffic >with the removal of these core nodes." I frankly don't understand what this is supposed to mean. There is no relationship between the structure of the BITNET core and the amount of CPU time or disk space used up by LISTSERV, unless you start counting individual kilobytes. There is a version of LISTSERV that can work without NJE. L-Soft announced a joint study a couple weeks ago through which this new version will be tested in production on several sites. It will definitely be available by July; all the code has been written, it just needs to be tested in a real-life situation and debugged as necessary. Eric