I would not like to see all the flaming of EARNTECH simply transferred to LSTSRV-L, which is not the appropriate forum for that. Anyway, I feel I have to reply to Ulrich. We all know that the *only* thing EARN is paying for now is the node tables generation. And that because of a very good reason: without the node tables the network will simply not run any more. And even the BoDies are intelligent enough to realize that this would adversely affect themselves. But NOTHING ELSE has been DONE. I've heard a lot of no-ops and well-intentioned nice-looking empty-contents discourses. NO progress at all regarding the requirements of the technical people. The relations with these technical people have degraded in the meanwhile to a point which, for me, is beyond any hope of regeneration. The fact that nobody from the BoD has said anything in view of the multiple unacceptable attacks we have received means that they implicitly support these actions. For me EARN is dead. It can continue to pseudo-exist as a zombie, with even nodes tables if you like, but this will not change that it's dead. Jose Maria