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
 
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(*) 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!