In article <[log in to unmask]>, "A. Harry Williams" <[log in to unmask]> says: >... >... The only reason I'd peer a list today >would be to distribute the archives through out the network. I've agreed to peer 7 lists recently and I've deliberately NOT kept local notebooks. It seems to me that having distributed archives is a pain since only the original (oldest) host has complete archives. And, being basically selfish, I didn't want to give up any more disk space than I had to. This does mean that the archives have to be public, since the "base" site doesn't know about the members at the other locations. If the archives get searched a lot, this does put a heavy load on the "base" site.