Let me clarify the meaning  of :backbone.YES DISTRIBUTE(NO) and apologize
for these rambled answers - there was  a huge amount of mail in my reader
this morning, and everything was in random (non-chronological) order.
 
Anyway, If  Left(tag,13) ==  ':backbone.YES' Then you  have to  keep your
server  up to  date. However,  if you  add DISTRIBUTE(NO),  you will  not
receive any DIST job to process; whether or not you are up 7 days is then
irrelevant. If you wish to participate  in the LISTS database stuff, that
is also fine, your database may not be  up to date when you are down :-),
but nobody  is forced to use  it. YES DISTRIBUTE(NO) means,  in fact, two
things:
 
1. You receive the "backbone only" control files, PEERS NAMES and LINKSWT
   FILE.
 
2. Your  server is  allowed to  participate  in all  the "backbone  only"
   activities, if you  so desire; in exchange for this,  you have to keep
   it up to date.
 
Does that meet your needs or do you still want a new tag?
 
  Eric