Folks, there is an RFD available for a proposed new Usenet group, comp.databases.berkeley-db. It's charter is to deal with all things related with using Berkeley DB. It specifically mentions Perl in the RFD, although it isn't exclusively targeted at the Perl community. I know this is something I would like to see, but obviously I am biased. If you feel that it is a good (or even bad) idea to have a forum for DB_File & BerkeleyDB related issues, could I encourage you to comment on the RFD on the news.groups newsgroup. See http://groups.google.co.uk/groups?selm=1048117088.326%40isc.org&output=gplai n for the RFD. cheers Paul