the serve-off notice displayes the internet form of our address, but when I try to serve the user back on, typing the id@address EXACTLY as displayed in the serve-off notice, it appears that the address is translated to the bitnet form BEFORE doing the compare ??? Is this a correct analysis of the following ? - mike ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- > serve [log in to unmask] JPC1%IONA.BITNET@ALBNYVM1 had not been served out. Summary of resource utilization ------------------------------- CPU time: 0.006 sec Device I/O: 0 Overhead CPU: 0.004 sec Paging I/O: 0 CPU model: 3084 DASD model: 3380