If NICSERVE saves large file requests until after midnight when most of my
users have logged off and gone home I have no problem with using DISTRIBUTE to
send the files. Especially when the alternative is for me to have to wait 3
weeks and still not get my file, or to have to receive and then send 10 copies
to people beyond me in the network. I'd just as soon receive one copy and
generate the others needed.
NICSERVE needs to have a size threshold beyond which files are sent via
distribute. Small files can be sent now, big ones should be held and
DISTRIBUTED after midnight to everyone who requested them in the past 24
hours.
Harold