> >Just some  thoughts. What thoughts  do the  list owners here  have about
> >these issues?
>
 
> I don't  get my technical information  out of Time magazine,  and I avoid
> making statements about things I don't  know or understand. Maybe if this
> were  a more  widespread  practice there  would  be less  self-fulfilling
> prophecies and less flocks of lemmings running wildly around and changing
> direction all of a sudden without any rational cause.
>
 
 
Nothing like fighting facts with facts.  Lemmings?
 
Fact A: LISTSERV is a mail repeater (among other things).
 
Fact B: Internet can deliver mail to LISTSERV just as well as Bitnet does.
 
A + B -> Fact C: LISTSERV can work in an Internet environment.
 
I own a list running on our VM system.  I personally subscribe to the list via
the Internet from my own workstation.  Mail from my list is distributed all
over the world on many different network systems through our VM system's
Internet and Bitnet connections and mail exchange gateways connected to these
two networks.
 
 
I also have a lot of X.400 subscribers.  Their mail is also handled by
LISTSERV.
 
I doubt that LISTSERV is going to go away soon.  It is a great system, and I
haven't seen anything yet that comes close to its capabilities.  I know nothing
about how it is implemented, but from a user's perspective it seems to operate
protocol independently.  As long as you can get mail to your list, it doesn't
care how it got there.
 
Rick Huff, Systems Analyst (409) 845-8454 ([log in to unmask])
CSC, Computing Account Services, Texas A&M University