Some of  you are  still writing  to me as  ERIC@FRECP11, which  presently gets
forwarded back to me without problem. However:
 
1. This can only  increase the delay for me to get  the message, ESPECIALLY if
   you are on the Swiss side of MOP.
 
2. As of  today,  FRECP11 is  operating  without  a  systems programmer  until
   august. The only qualified system persons  are a housemaid who knows how to
   IPL the CPU and make backups, and  the computing center director, who did a
   "DL *.*" last year from the root  directory on the MINI/6 to "clean up some
   disk space" (well  they also did a COLD  start some time ago to  fix a 3812
   paper jam problem).
 
3. FRECP11 will be down from sometime around the end of july until mid-august.
   The files may or may not be purged by the FRORSxx spool cleaner during that
   period. Last  year I  cared about  it, so  I set up  an EXEC  to send  me a
   time-stamped file from  another node every day, to see  if they would purge
   files as the previous year regardless  of my complaints, which they didn't.
   This year  I simply don't  care and will  not even consider  complaining if
   they do.
 
4. The chances that I use ERIC@FRECP11 again in my life are less than 1%. As I
   said, they  did not  even consider offering  me a job  (which I  would have
   refused anyway :-) ).
 
So, please change your  names files to point to CEARN  (not LEPICS) instead of
FRECP11. I am considering writing an exec to overcome the laziness of the 5-10
persons or so who regularly send me mail at FRECP11: first time you do it, you
get a nastygram.  Second time, your mail is auto-discarded  :-) The reason I'm
mailing to the  list is that there  are also a lot of  occasional mail writers
who use the old address.
 
  Eric