> I posted here because other posts I made to mers didn't
> appear in my mail for 5-17 hours.

And given past experiences on mers, it does leave you wondering if yet
another list has accidently gone missing, never to be seen again. ;-)

> I certainly will. But since the whole purpose of these
> groups is to share knowledge, I guess no one knows.

What on earth gave you that idea? <g>

The idea of having separate lists is so that people can limit their
participation to those topics that are of interest. The concern is,
if lists get flooding with inappropriate traffic, then people will
stop participating because it is too difficult to wade through all the
uninteresting items.


I do agree that the purpose of this particular list is a little vague.
You can find list explanations at
http://www.interbase2000.org/ib_lists.htm
where it says that this list is...

"InterBase Developer Initiative forum for discussing issues of open
source, documentation, impact on current and future development and
support, etc. Files upload/download area is occasionally active.
It's also a list where someone is likely to call for help with jobs!
This is NOT a tech support list. Please refer to ib-support and the
Mers list for support."


Anyway. The answer to your question is...

Either SP-A must have execute access to SP-B (and everything else that
is used) OR the user must. Either (or both) condition(s) will satisfy
the security requirement, the choice depends on your requirements.


Geoff Worboys
Telesis Computing