On Thu, 2 Jan 1997 17:50:07 EST Roger Fajman said:
>Here's a suggestion for a future version of LISTSERV, perhaps the one
>following 1.8b:
>
>We have our local service area defined to be our own organization and
>have many lists that use Service=Local.  We also have a lesser, but
>still significant, number of lists that are intended to serve our
>parent organization and all its components.  Right now, if those lists
>are not to be visible to the whole Internet, each one must specify the
>proper service area individually.  This is awkward when the definition
>of that service area changes.  What I would like to be able to do is
>define additional service areas that could be referenced by lists.  One
>way of doing that would be to allow Service=(xyz-l), meaning "the same
>service area as list xyz-l."
Couldn't you do this with ".ik"?
 
/ahw