Here's a suggestion for a future version of LISTSERV, perhaps the one following 1.8b: We have our local service area defined to be our own organization and have many lists that use Service=Local. We also have a lesser, but still significant, number of lists that are intended to serve our parent organization and all its components. Right now, if those lists are not to be visible to the whole Internet, each one must specify the proper service area individually. This is awkward when the definition of that service area changes. What I would like to be able to do is define additional service areas that could be referenced by lists. One way of doing that would be to allow Service=(xyz-l), meaning "the same service area as list xyz-l."