I say leave things the way they are. Perhaps add something to the metaservers HOWTO that comes with vanilla source, something to the effect of "email metaserver maintainers X, Y, and Z if you are not active in the development community and would like to list a server on the metaserver", to encourage more communication between server people and metaserver people. This should help with the issue of people putting up bad, laggy servers without really being involved with the dev community. There's also the issue of metaserver being open to the attack vector of solicits from multiple servers on multiple IPs, but it hasn't happened and probably never will at this point. Bill