I'm trying to reply to several notes at once, so forgive the confusion. >An example of an excellent seminar is "The Second Conference on >Computers, Freedom and Privacy", March 18-20 in Washington DC. >Registration is $295. Maybe we could do something like this. I don't think there is enough interest to organize a 3-days yearly seminar. The topic is too technical, that is, people in charge of running servers and lists will want to attend, end-users will never get the funding, and manager-types will not be interested. Freedom and Privacy attracts journalists, executives, software developers, and so on. Limited audience would considerably increase your fee, and nobody would wind up attending. >>Would you be willing to travel to attend? I think most people would be willing to travel to any reasonable city in the US. However I think most people would rather walk to the library and just buy a book on LISTSERV. >>Is there really enough interest in LISTSERV to have formal instruction >>on it's use? Quite possibly, in my opinion. I don't think SHARE is the place though: there aren't many BITNET/Internet people at SHARE, and I assume there will be even less with the present economical situation. You'll end up with many commercial companies asking you what vendor is selling this software, and the answer is, well, if you REALLY want it and you REALLY think you can handle all the table building and possibly required local changes to make it work outside BITNET, with no documentation whatsoever, something can be arranged, but you'd better forget it. Frankly, I would rather not have to answer questions from a crowd of non-BITNET sites following a LISTSERV training session at SHARE. This isn't to say you shouldn't be doing BOF's, but I definitely think a session with an attractive abstract on group communication under VM would only be frustrating for everyone. And, of course, VMS people tend not to attend SHARE :-) The ideal solution is for some well-connected (I'm talking flights rather than network here ;-) ) university with good local expertise on LISTSERV to organize training seminars, say, 2-4 times a year and charge whatever they feel is a right price for the service. In addition, someone could write a book for those not fortunate enough to be able to attend training sessions. Again, these are just my thoughts - I'm not involved in any of this, after all :-) Eric