No Richard, this is the wrong way to go. I don't mean the update concept for PEERS NAMES -- whether we ship updates or the whole file is only a matter of network load. I mean asking postmasters to do the work themselves AS THE ONE AND ONLY AVAILABLE OPTION. This sure is going to hurt the backbone a lot. People who don't have time to update don't have time to install PEERS NAMES, of course, and this is not a problem in your scheme. But see DOMAIN NAMES: I usually install whatever table update I get within the 15 minutes after receipt (assuming I'm here). With DOMAINS NAMES being updated more than once a week, I eventually, after a long period, became FED UP with it. Too much extra work for me. I told Hank about it, and he understood my feeling and decided to PUT it about once every 3 weeks, which is very acceptable. My point: a postmaster who wants to do "extra work" (eg manually verifying any and all PTFs on his PUT tape, and selectively discarding those he doesn't want to keep) should have right to. A postmaster who wants to have nothing to do but enter the logon password and reply to a few questions should be allowed to use VMSERV or INSTFPP or whatever. I would myself choose the former, but would find it unacceptable if IBM did not provide VMSERV &co. Even though it is obviously best to check IBM PTFs for bugs before installing them. Eric