The answer is that point (b) is just historical. The code used to get rid
of domain  addresses as  soon as possible,  substituting a  valid gateway
nodeid instead,  and there  was no  support for  domain addresses  in the
service areas. It  just happened that the gateway node  was used for this
purpose, and in  practice all domain addresses were in  the US and routed
via a US gateway,  so it worked just fine :-) I have  changed the code to
allow you to  do what you want,  ie the domain nodeid itself  is used for
the service  area calculation, rather than  the gateway. Since this  is a
bug rather  than new development, the  change is available to  EARN and I
have sent you  a copy. However, I  stand by my previous  statement that I
will not ship any fix shipment to  EARN sites, so that nobody can pretend
that I have purposefully introduced bugs  in the code just before handing
the support to EARN. The fix is available from me on request; just before
I  stop supporting  LISTSERV  for  EARN sites,  I  will  make a  shipment
containing all the  EARN fixes since FIX15O1 (at present  that's just the
one I just made) and will make  it available from a service machine, with
a disclaimer  recommending NOT to install  it unless the local  staff can
commit to fix any bug that may  have been introduced there, as I would no
longer support them,  FIX15O1 has no known  major bug, and it  is not yet
known when nor how EARN is going to provide support for LISTSERV.
 
  Eric