> can improve turnaround time a lot. Thank you for this very useful piece > of information, and my apologies for having misunderstood it and got the > incorrect impression that you were blaming BITNET and/or saying that > using Internet rather than BITNET for LISTSERV was the right thing to do. Right. Since the majority of ordinary users are unaware of the status of their bitnet links most of the time, this kind of information can be quite useful. Most ordinary users also don't keep up with which other bitnet links along the route are down. It's easier to tell them to use internet than to explain to them how to check on bitnet links -- since most ordinary users don't seem to share my odd (odd for a non-techy) interest in such matters. As for the "and/or" sentence above: Your impression that I was blaming bitnet was incorrect -- I was not. Your impression that I was saying that using internet rather than bitnet for listserv was the right thing to do was not entirely incorrect. That's what I was saying -- with the qualifying statement "IN SOME CASES." --Natalie ([log in to unmask])