At 10:25 11/08/1999 Monday , Tim Burnham wrote:
 >Hi everybody,
 >
 >I have ListServ Lite and it requires the Runmode to be Tableless.  For a
 >default address, I have "SWGATE.LSOFT.COM", but I'm not able to Ping it
 >successfully so I think its not the correct value I should have to reach the
 >Lsoft "backbone".

An email address very well might NOT be PINGable.  A realtime translation
is done for the part to the right of the @ e.g.,

Using a DiG client and doing an MX lookup reveals

Query:Mail Exchange (MX):SWGATE.LSOFT.COM
SWGATE.LSOFT.COM        MX      10      vms.dc.lsoft.com <- this is the Internet host that
"handles" the mail for SWGATE

vms.dc.lsoft.com        A       209.119.1.27
vms.dc.lsoft.com        A       209.119.0.2

Complete: SWGATE.LSOFT.COM
Query:Address (A):SWGATE.LSOFT.COM

Doing an "A" record lookup for SWGATE gives a negative response:

Authoritative Answer
Server has no data for this query
Complete:NO_DATA SWGATE.LSOFT.COM