Subject: Re: an idea from an anonymous person About what Chris said about not the list manager not knowing how many people were on the bitnet side of his list, if he was made the owner of the list on each of the LISTSERVs he could get notification every time someone joined the list (ie he could count them as they joined). If someone from the BITNET side tried to join his list directly, he could add them to the closest LISTSERV himself which is about as much effort as adding him to a mailing list I would think. Overall, adding the ARPA lists to the LISTSERVs is a good idea from my point of view... Oh, by the way, is there any problem with subscribing a FRECP11 list to a BITNIC list so there would be one way redistribution from the BITNIC list to the FRECP11 one (but not back). Would you just sign up the FRECP11 list as a regular list member? scott