I have another of my usual improductive questions to ask: there are presently 2710 spool files on the RSCS reader at CEARN (mostly because FRMOP22 has been down since saturday 20:30 - another matter which I will not discuss here). Of these 2710 files, 810 are INFO-VAX mail files. Yes, you have read correctly. 30% of the files waiting at CEARN are INFO-VAX mail files. They total 96k records, ie 25% of the total RSCS queue. INFO-VAX usually comes in bunches of 100 to 200 postings, each of them from 50 to 1500 records, every other day. That is, you have days without INFO-VAX, and days with 100-200 of them. I would like someone to actually convince me that this list is worth spending 25% of our bandwidth, not to mention the LISTSERV/MAILER CPU time, etc etc. No other list in the world produces anything above 20% of the INFO-VAX traffic, and these are already what we call "huge" lists. That's a bit as if INFO-VAX mapped into the yearly benefits of IBM, LINKFAIL were those of DEC, etc. Eric