On Fri, 20 Aug 1993 00:28:57 EDT Tom Abernathy said:
>A few weeks ago I tried to find EDSTAT-L.  I was suprised to find that
>LISTSERV@UGA did not know how to find that list.
>I have since found it.  It has moved to some machine with domain based
>name. (Internet, TCP/IP, Unix, whatever you like to call this.)
>
>My question for LSTSRV-L is why did UGA not know about this list?
>Is it because the software on that machine is incompatible with UGA?
>Is it because the listowner never told UGA that the list existed?
>
>I really like mailing lists and have used them for years.  However one
>of the things I liked about LISTSERV was that you could query its
>list of lists.
 
Backbone Listservs know about public lists on Bitnet that are served
by VM Listserv software.  If any list is not such, then it is unknown
to backbone Listservs like [log in to unmask]
(Yes, some Bitnet listserv nodes also have internet hostnames, like
 UGA, so list@UGA on Bitnet and [log in to unmask] on the internet
 are both valid/identical.)