Hello to everybody. I'm the postmaster at listserv @EB0UB011. I would like to make some comments to what Harry Williams seems to have suffer. First of all, it must be notice that since Miguel Angel Campos and Jose Maria Blasco left the University of Barcelona, NOBODY has taken care of ANY server AT ALL. Time to time some part time people tried to get them surviving, bat that was all. To this situation has to be added that the IBM3090 that holds all the servers was given to a new center (CESCA) by the Univerity. This center sarted a year and a half ago. In total, we are not more than 20 people, and (till 4 months ago) ONLY 1 person in comunications who also was in charge of all the servers (netserv, listserv, trickle,relay..). When I arrived (in january), the other person left. I think that Harry Williams never has tried to learn how a EARN-server works wihtout on-line help. Otherwise, he would have realize that the lack of GOOD documentation is the normal situation. Only thanks to the cooperation and help of extremely good professionals of the net, I've been able to do something more than just have the servers runing. Just before the summer I started worrying about LISTSERV. As it is running under HPO and this will be stooped, it was decided to migrate it to XA (at the same machine). That could be the best, and install a new LISTSERV and keep it updated and runing in good conditions, ins- talling the fixes when necessary and doing something as simple as loo- king at the error messages everyday to try to solve them. So I started getting documentation (my good, had work||), learning about LISTSERV and LISTEARN ( ??; here,I get lost), installing the new list server and getting in contact with list owners (and when the owners said they didn't know what to do, getting in contact with postmasters). That's when I get in contact with the golbal owners (BITNCGLO KEYWORDS) of all the BITNIC lists and find no much cooperation. Which on the other hand is allright whith me: first, now exists Bitnet-II and second, Spain is at the bottom of Europe and maybe it's not the most logical place to have a server that distributes users far at the top. Plus the fact that if I want to give good service, it will be easier with less lists (still only me for EARN stuff and other duties). I appreciate all the hard work Harry Williams is doing.The funniest thing is that i could have done all this work, as I'm one of the global owners (I use the same userid that had Miguel Angel Campos) and sure it would have been esier from here. Plus the fact that maybe I know a bit better LISTEARN and could have help Harry with his troubles. I want to remark that i don't know what (and why ) differences exist between LISTEARN and LISTSERV. But the server here would have work nicely if somebody had taken care of it constantly over the years. Finally, thanks to all for getting till the end of this disclaimer, and reamrking that this list has been another important way of getting information. Cristina Blanxer.