I'm sad to have to announce that, but: Due to an unnaceptable intrusion in private work and abberant technical impositions from the EB0UB011 staff, I am forced to leave my job and so also the net. The EB0UB011 server machines LISTSERV, RELAY and MAILER will now be operated by Miguel Angel Campos <EARNMAIN@EB0UB011>. You may expect some difficulties or complete removal of some or all of these servers since I cannot predict what's the EB0UB011 management intention about them -- assuming they'll take care of them in any way; I doubt they'll be able to. Code distributions and list subscriptions should go to EARNMAIN instead of ZCCBJBC from now. To be realistic you can expect some mail from the EB0UB011 politicians (composed with great effort btw. since they're not comfortable under MAIL/MAILBOOK) accusing me of all kind of nasty things that are really due to the high incompetence and incredible irresponsibility of their staff. As an example, I'm declared in BITEARN NODES as the postmaster for MAILER (userid MAILMAIN) but I'm not allowed to install new tables, versions, etc; of course, when there is a problem then it is MY fault, etc. PLEASE don't send any private mail to ZCCBJBC. I don't know what EB0UB011 plans to do with this userid. In any case I'll not be here any more. If someone wants to contact me they'll have to ressort to snailmail to reach me at my *private* postal address: Jose Maria Blasco Comellas Ronda General Mitre, 215, Atico 1a. 08023 Barcelona Spain (+34) (3) 211 77 57 I'm sorry to have to say that without a little more of coordination, but my deadline if today 9pm. I must ask if someone could take the work of coordinating VMKIDS-L. I'm the official coordinator for that list but obviously I won't be able to do this work any more. All EB0UB011 lists have at least one non-local owner; feel free to do with those lists what you'd better like. Eric has all the required info to change any list you may own/be interested in. You'll have to find also a new Listserv Coordinator for Southern Europe (and update the docs and the corresponding FACs :-)). I really enjoyed all the Listserv part of the work... *sigh*... I'd like to make all the programs I may have sent to different people public domain. You can enhance, use, or drop them, whatever you prefer. Please respect my name if you do a mod tho :-) Eric has almost all the utilities I wrote I think. I would like to say a big thanks to all of you. I remember when I started on the net one year and a half ago and I wonder how much nice people I have known since then and how much good work is done on the net with the only purpose of offering mutual help. Thanks to all. I hope to be back on the net (at another node) a.s.a.p. For now I'll take a month of vacations tho. With warm regards, Jose Maria