On Mon, 3 Apr 89 12:00:50 GMT Eric Thomas said: > > ... The complaints come from sites which >have a good number of large local lists, sometimes with as much as 1000 >subscribers on them, and who've got to justify every second of CPU time >spent on network (ie non-local) services. I don't really know what to do >there. They could be allowed to disable netwide functions, but then what >happens if they do have a few non-local lists (that is usually the case, >even if most lists are local)? What if a local user does a SIGNOFF with >the NETWIDE option and doesn't get signed off these lists because the >function is disabled? Why not have a Local-Only header. Only Local Postmasters may affect these lists. Other commands touch (search/modify) only Local-Only = No lists. A local area may be defined in the SYSVARS file(s) and then it may be used as a service-area parm as well. /Geert ** The views above are my own and may not be those of my employer. ** ** They should be taken as my own and not as those of anyone else. **