Besides the "usual" reasons to choose from for mail outages/delays, we have the bonus reasons of end-of-USA school year and the implementation of the monthly BITEARN NODES updates. Some sites, and thus affecting their users' subscriptions, have left Bitnet. They did so in a manner that LISTSERV was not informed of any new subscription address. Though they might have a valid Internet address, they never "told" anyone via official channels i.e., sufficient lead time in updating the :NEWNODE tag of their now-obsolete node. Head the advice in the file LEAVING BITNET (available via a GET cmd from listserv@bitnic). -- co-owner INFOSYS, TQM-L, CPARK-L, ERAPPA-L, JANITORS, LDBASE-L, et -L [log in to unmask] "The Internet: it's changing" +1 814 863 1843 31 Shields Bldg. -- Penn State Univ -- University Park, PA 16802-1202 USA