Gabe Goldberg wrote: > Hm, hasn't LISTSERV done this for a while... ;-)> > ----- > CONTROLLING TRAFFIC ON THE NET > Cisco Systems, along with Sun Microsystems, Informix Corp., Netcom > Online Communication Services and others, is backing technology > [...] that [...] moves an e-mail message through the Internet pipeline > and then replicates it at the end of the process for multiple > distribution [...] I'm sure this sounds familiar to Eric. Heck it even sounds familiar to me :-) But that was long, long ago on a network far, far away (Bitnet). Their new-fangled product will copy Listserv's concepts much like IRC did to Relay; but at least Listserv is strong and adequately established to go a few rounds with any newcomers on the horizon. Jeff Kell <[log in to unmask]>