Thomas,  what   are  you  talking  about?   A  piece  of  mail   sent  to
BOUNCE-L%ERRORBOX@yournode    is,   in    most   cases,    delivered   to
BOUNCE-L@yournode via NJE. Of course, there is a minority of BITNET nodes
and gateways which will transfer this  note to your V2 mailer, which will
then send it  to the proper place,  but in most cases, this  will land in
the reader  of BOUNCE-L  (which is  8 characters long).  If the  list was
ABC-L, it  would be  posted to  the userid 'ABC-L%ER'.  Now, how  are you
going to handle that?
 
And, by the way. I have made up my mind on the business of giving 1.6a to
EARN. I  am not spending any  time on this.  I am merely waiting  for the
EARN officials to  come back from vacations/wake  up/remember their logon
passwords. Since  that takes  very little  of my time,  I spend  the rest
playing cards while waiting for a  VAX to stop telling me "Maximum number
of users exceeded, <censored> and die", or to compile/linkedit a 50-lines
PASCAL program (takes  30 minutes), or for DECNET to  copy the executable
to  another,  dedicated  VAX  (the  one  on  which  we  run  the  code  -
unfortunately it can't do the compilation, as it doesn't have enough disk
space to store all the junk that  this requires). My boss appears to hope
that  we will  be able  to setup  a fast  link to  that VAX  with similar
performance  as  the  one  we   developed  for  the  Apollo  workstations
(1Mbyte/sec  disk-to-disk), using  the same  hardware. I  doubt that  the
dedicated VAX will  ever be able to exceed  the 280k/sec memory-to-memory
that we're getting today, but I've been told to try.
 
  Eric