Hello I saw Marc''s co-maintainer invitation, and hope that I will be able to contribute. I am not a Debian developer, but I am a long time user. The first thing I did was to browse the bts, pick a bug that looked easy to fix, and begin to thing about how to fix it. After looking at the code, I began to appreciate Marc''s apparent frustration with the current situation. I am sorry, but I do not think I am a good enough at perl to contribute fixes to the current code base. After looking at the code, I can understand Marc''s decision to fix only the worst bugs. I administered most of the *nix machines in a university engineering college a few years ago. We used nis on most of them, so I am fairly familiar with that protocol. If nothing else, I hope to be able to contribute to nis support for the proposed Debian adduser rewrite. Mike