> >If you send the request by mail, the response is by mail. I almost never > >send any commands interactively because I find mail much more convenient. > > This has not been my experience. I frequently send database > searches to listserv@umdd, always by e-mail. The results are ALWAYS sent > to me as files, not e-mail messages. Thus, many thanks to Peter Weiss for Now that you mention it, I do have a vague memory of being highly annoyed one time because I sent such a request to listserv@node and got a message back saying the file was being sent as netdata. When I say I send all commands by mail (and get mail responses), I don't mean that I send them as bitnet mail. I send them internet. I don't think I've ever gotten a file back when I've done that, even though I feared that things like that might start happening once we registered our bitnet-internet connection. (It was that kind of worry that made me glad we resisted registering for a long time. I don't want my bitnet address being used for anything.) --Natalie ([log in to unmask])