This thing does exist. It is called LISTSERV GROUPS and is "maintained" by the BITNIC. Note the double quotes. I remember asking Judy to change RSCSMODS@ TAMCBA to RSCSMODS@TAMVM1 while I was in Texas. When I came back I asked again. Very recently I realized that the change *had* been made... but I'm sure at least 2 months have elapsed between the request and the change. It does not even list all the BITNIC lists: for example, TECH-L is not described. Anyway NICSERVE doesn't have automatic-file-distribution, so nobody knows when a new list is created. Oh well, don't speak the name of the Devil ;-) My suggestion: a *real* "LISTSERV GROUPS" file (under another name to avoid conflicts, both technical and political), maintained by the Listserv Coordina- tion (that's 4 persons now, so even if I get hit by a truck, Harold goes to Planet Mars on vacations and John breaks his leg while trying to mount PUT 8604 ( ;-) ) on the tape drive, we still have someone to maintain the file), and made available on Netserv. People interested in the file would just AFD to it. Of course AFD is available only to node admins, but... do we really want 23 copies of the file sent to each node on the network? ;-) The file would be stored on LISTSERV when the file-server functions are available, of course. Eric