On Sun, 15 Mar 1992 13:59:53 EST Jerry B Altzman <JAUUS@CUVMB> said: >Fine then. We DO run our own listserv. That's not the point I'm trying >to make. The only point I was trying to make is that leaf sites should >NOT just go and join the backbone without first talking to their >upstream sites about it. What difference does it make whether the site is a leaf site or not? ANDESCOL is not a leaf site, it serves a whole country. Yet if it joins the backbone, it may attract some CU traffic. The point you are trying to make is that when a prospective backbone site has non-backbone (or non-LISTSERV) neighbours, it should talk to them before joining because the DISTRIBUTE patterns may change. The only case when they won't change to anyone's dissatisfaction is when the new node is surrounded by backbone servers, which almost never happens. Eric