Arrgh. Personally, I'd like to see these lists combined. The whole debacle about checkout cookies (which, I am not mistaken, squarely touches both your "distributed authoring" and "versioning" definitions). I don't think we can have two separate sets of conversations in isolation from each other. As soon as you talk about collaborative work, you talk about versioning. It would also be nice if Jim could set up his list server so that a reply when to the list, not to the author. I, too, have been doing the "delete delete" dance. Christopher