On Wed, 2 Jun 2004, Charlotte I. Calvert wrote:

>Error during command authentication
>Error - unable to initiate communication with LISTSERV (errno=61). The
>server is probably not started.

What happens if you put another computer on the same network port? You
might be dealing with either a faulty ethernet card on the computer OR a
faulty network port. It might help to put a fluke on that subnet and see
if there are any packet collissions or other network abnormalities.