I have a question for VM people with a lot of PC's in their schools. If this is the wrong list, perhaps you could suggest another. At The George Washington University, Washington, DC, we have installed a campus net based on AT&T ISN technology. It is just coming on stream, and nontechnical faculty are starting to sign up for ports. We use Crosswell mailer and Rice user interface. I'm a Comp Sci professor and part-time administrator (Asst. to VP) and don't really mind the CMS interface style. But I'd like to avoid imposing it on non-tekkies. We site-license YTERM and give it away to users as a decent terminal emulator for using host on serial lines. Has good reliable file transfer. So here's the question: Do you know whether anyone has developed a PC-based interface to CMS mail facilities so that mail could be easily downloaded in a batch to PC, read there, responses edited and uploaded, etc. Advantage: you get off the office-to-host line faster and you don't deal with the CMS user interface with its more/holding junk and all that. If there is a reasonable commercial product I'd like to hear about it, but as a University we'd rather have a University-developed (ie cheap) package, maybe even with source code we could tweak. To sum up: PCs and Macs over serial lines to IBM 7171 protocol converter. YTERM is the standard emulator (TinCan on Mac). I hope someone out there has an idea.