That brings up a pet idea I've been thinking about: Now that Eric has implemented a nice facility for global maintenance of a database (the LISTS code), how about employing a similar idea to create a network-wide yellow pages/name server? LISTSERV is efficient, almost universally available and the database features that Eric already has implemented are far superior to any of the name servers I've ever seen. Hub sites (perhaps the sites currently running NETSERV) AND THE NIC could hold the database and LISTSERV already has some idea of how to route requests to the most reasonable server. Perhaps we could do it by regions and use the LSVDELT mechanism to keep eachh server informed about who has what information. It's an interesting idea, that's for sure. ---------- David Boyes (503) 686-4394 |BITNET: 556@OREGON1 Systems Group |ARPA : 556%OREGON1.BITNET@ University of Oregon Computing Center| CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU UUCP: [your fav backbone]...!tektronix!uoregon!oregon2!oregon1!556