>Heres just an idea off the top of my head. What about the servers at bitnic
>taking each request for one of the files and saving it until the end of
>the day. Then it batches up all the requests for that day and sends a
>DISTRIBUTE job to listserv to deliver the day's files.
 
An excellent idea.  Another good one along the same lines that is even
easier to implement... LISTSERV/NETSERV 'AFD' processing!  You already
have a distribution list (more or less) and nobody was expecting the files
until the AFD time anyway... so you would wait LESS depending on where you
are in relation to the server.
 
/Jeff/