This just doesn't work. It doesn't mean any thing to say that a node is in the juridiction of a given LISTSERV. It means something to say that, at a given time, with a given set of node tables, weight tables and backbone servers, a node was in the "service area" of a given LISTSERV. But this may change the next minute if new tables are installed. What do you do then? Forward the entries to the new "service" LISTSERV for the node? But then, maybe this server still has the old tables and thinks the entries should be kept somewhere else. So what will it do? Discard the new entries? Install them anyway? And what if a third server, which still runs the old tables, sends a "change" request to the first server, which was but is no longer (although it might later become again) the "service" LISTSERV for the specified node? You don't have a can of worms here. You have a full bin of them :-) Eric