I've just got a very surprising piece of mail from Judy -- sounds like the complete opposite of what she said on the BITNIC lists about their LISTSERV. Anyway it's good news :-) /Eric *-----------------------------------------------------------------------------* Eric- Ricky is removing our test version on LISTSERV today to make room for the FRECP11 LISTSERV. He will be testing it this week and we will probably like to switch it to our working version soon. We need to know how you wish to work with BITNIC. New sites usually find the Information Center quickly and we distribute information about whats available. Do you want to continue to distribute your code or would you want us to do it? If you will continue to distribute the code then do you want the same kind of relationship which we have with Alan Crosswell and the Crosswell Mailer? With the mailer we have a help file called XWELL INFO1 which states where to get the Mailer and a breif definition of what it does. If there is a problem with the server, will you be the contact to fix it, or to send suggestions to? Can we have a list of sites running the FRECP11 LISTSERV and a list of the people running the servers at each site? Harold Pritchett mentioned using INFO as a psudo-peer server. I am not convinced that this would work practically. It sometimes takes more than a week to go through the INFO questions. If ADD/REMOVE requests and Mailings are mixed in with the other questions there would be unreasonable delay. I wouldn't want to go through requests by hand and check the topology to find out if UGA's LISTSERV is closer, and to write a program to do it would be reinventing the peer LISTSERV with a added option of sorting through non-related requests. Anyway, I would like to speed up the conversion to using your LISTSERV Eric. If we can set up communications with you and Ricky can send us a report on his tests, then we will try the FRECP11 LISTSERV here. Next we would send a list of nodes and contacts which have the BITNIC code, so the FRECP11 code could be sent as a replacement. Regards...Judy