Yes, but as Cleo points out, I (as a subscriber, rather than as a
listowner) have no interest in knowing whether it's working.

> So I don't understand what the confusion is about.  It makes sense
> that each peer should send an ACK counting the subscribers on that
> peer.  As Russ said, how else would you know if it's working?

It was a joke, though: I don't need to know.  And in fact it's
clearly a bug rather than a feature, from a user's point of view.

As Cleo says,

> The bad thing about this deal.. is that since I'm not subscribed
> to the peered list.. I can't turn the ACK off.. although I know I
> can sub. to the list set it to NOMAIL and NOACK.. but, seems like a
> lot of extra work a subscriber probably shouldn't be asked to go
> through?  No big deal I know.. but.. ;-)

Actually, I'm not sure it's trivial, because every time I get a
subscriber who's confused it costs me time.  And if this is
confusing me I know it'll confuse, well, at least some of my
subscribers.  So I guess I'll never peer any list _I_ own.

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