I think it's a good solution - provided, of course, that Eric thinks it' acceptable. It lacks, though, in one way - suppose an EARN LISTSERV postmaster discovers a bug. This bug could, and probably also will, affect non-EARN LISTSERVs (remember - most LISTSERVs are not in EARN). Now the EARN postmaster could not warn the others (at least not "officially") about the problem, and sometimes this can damage. Still - the solution of "Eric doesn't support; only includes the "EARN-master" in the updates he ships" is not bad at all...but now we have to hear Eric's reaction to it. /Zvika