There are established procedures for a node to leave Bitnet. The document may be had by e-mailing listserv@bitnic or [log in to unmask] with body-of-text: get leaving bitnet The procedure involves a time-period that covers a couple of BITEARN NODES update cycles (2 or more). Basically, if the procedure is followed, LISTSERV will take the "hint" that a site's Bitnet users are to be moved to the equivalent :Internet. host, and that any new Bitnet-received subscriptions should be immediately converted to the :Internet address. This procedure is supposed to be followed by the node's NAD. To display a node's NAD, ask any LISTSERV: SHOW NAD bit_node To see if a node even has an Internet address registered(*) in the BITEARN NODES db: SHOW ALIAS bit_node -- co-owner INFOSYS, TQM-L, CPARK-L, ERAPPA-L, JANITORS, LDBASE-L, et -L [log in to unmask] "Right bullet, wrong target" s/me +1 814 863 1843 31 Shields Bldg. -- Penn State Univ -- University Park, PA 16802-1202 USA (*) having a BITEARN NODES :Internet tag does NOT make it an "official" fully-qualified domain name: that can only be done by the updating of the Domain Name System, which is outside of Bitnet. Thus the :Internet tag could be wrong!