I'm afraid I don't understand the question exactly. If you have a local redistribution for local staff, you probably don't want anybody (outside from the local staff, which I assume will know about it) to subscribe to it, and it should therefore not be known to the rest of the world. A list which isn't peered doesn't provide the same service as the master list, and therefore it is absolutely reasonable not to forward subscription requests for that list to a redistribution list - again, another reason for not being globally known. I cannot think of any reason for wanting to be globally known; did I miss something? :-) Eric