On Thu, 2 Jan 1997 17:50:07 EST Roger Fajman said: >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." Couldn't you do this with ".ik"? /ahw