I have received a memo from my network services saying the following:
 
"During a videoconference held among all major representatives of Texas
Bitnet sites on Monday, 10/11/93, Rice University announced that they will
be removing their machine from the Bitnet core backbone in April 1994.  The
effect of this action by Rice leaves all of Texas and parts of Mexico
without a backbone attachment to Bitnet and therefore removes TTU [Texas
Tech University] from that network.  Furthermore, with the announced
termination of backbone service by USC and Cornell in July, the entire
future of Bitnet is extremely doubtful.  There is not enough computational
resources to continue LISTSERV traffic with the removal of these core
nodes."
 
Does the removal of bitnet mean that LISTSERVs can no longer function?  Or
does it simply mean that all addresses must now be in Internet format?
 
Fred Kemp
Texas Tech University
Owner:  MBU-L, WCENTER, ACW-L, AWR-L, BACW-L
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