On Sat,  12 Sep 1992 11:14:00  N "H.J. Woltring, fax/tel  +31.40.413 744"
<WOLTRING@HNYKUN53> said:
 
>If if  have been properly  informed through  the grapevine, there  is an
>increasing  tendency to  phase out  BITNET  (and its  affiliated nets  -
>Netnorth,  GULFnet,  BITNETJP,  EARN  ?)  in  favour  of  pure  Internet
>connectivity with its possibilities for TELNET, FTP, Gopher, WAIS, etc.
 
BITNET has  indeed lost 61 nodes  this year, but there  are two different
issues here. People  get Internet connectivity so they can  use TELNET et
al in  addition to BITNET  services, which is  a good thing  obviously. A
subset of  these people then  decide, usually  at a very  high managerial
level, that BITNET is no longer needed, and can be dropped to save money.
 
>are the licensors of LISTSERV and LISTEARN in the process of considering
>how to  handle the situation of  a reducing number of  BITNET etc. sites
>that,  under  current licencing  policies,  are  entitled to  run  these
>extremely useful  packages, and even  more so in  view of the  fact that
>they do serve non-BITNET etc. sites (Internet, UUCP/EUNET, etc.)?
 
Concretely, what are you trying to say?
 
  Eric