I hate posting general information requests to a list, especially as my first posting to a list, but I've looked everywhere I can think of and I can't find the answers, and I refuse to bother Eric directly, so here goes. Our facility, the David Rittenhouse Computing Facility of the University of Pennsylvania, has received several requests from our user community for mailing list services. The most logical answer to these requests would seem to be the installation of a LISTSERV at one of our BITNET nodes, either PENNSAS or PENNDRLS. In order to make a decision as to whether or not to install this product, we would like information on (1) cost of obtaining the software, (2) approximate amount of staff time required to install it (3) approximate amount of staff time required to maintain it, and (4) approximate maginitude of the computing resources it consumes (PENNSAS is an IBM 4341 L2 and PENNDRLS is an IBM 3090-200E). Obviously I can't be certain of getting the answers to any but the first question. I'm hoping someone will be able to send me the answer to that first question (and information on how to go about getting the software should we decide to go ahead), and pointers to people or lists where I might be able to gather information that will enable me to take a guess at the remaining questions. In any case, thanks for whatever help you can provide. And thanks to Eric for all the work he has done on LISTSERV, regardless of whether or not we decide we can afford to install it. -- R. David Murray ([log in to unmask], [log in to unmask]) P.S.: I find it somewhat distressing that I could not find a discussion of LISTSERV liscencing procedures, not even a mention of who to talk to, when LISTSERV is the premier information distrabution tool on BITNET! I found a one liner in INFO GENINTRO that made me think I should talk to my regional listserv coordinator, whose name I had noticed earlier in INFO COORD, but he has not replied and its been 10 days. I tried LDBASE on the notebooks for this list, figuring someone must have asked this question here before, but I couldn't figure out how to phrase the request (SEARCH ORDER AND LISTSERV gave 192 hits, and a random sampling of those were not relevant). Did I miss something obvious? (Yes, I know, I'll eventually be sending mail to Eric. But I don't want to bother him until I absolutely have to.)