Jacob Haller replied, in part.. > "Mail-Via= Direct" allows you to disable it on a list-by-list basis. That would be wonderful! Guess I am confused by a paragraph in the Site Manager's manual on "Mail-Via=" ... The default value is Mail-Via= DISTRIBUTE. DIST2 is functionally equivalent to DISTRIBUTE, and is included for historical reasons. Mail-Via= Direct causes LISTSERV to ignore the DISTRIBUTE algorithm for subscribers on the local system, but mail to non-local subscribers will still go out on the DISTRIBUTE backbone. Is the last phrase a relic of BITNET, and not appropriate to SMTP? A quick test I just tried seems to indicate that. If so, excellent! (perhaps the wording might be adjusted for any future version of the manual, please?) Thanks and cheers, wayne Wayne T. Smith mailto:[log in to unmask] Systems Group - UNET University of Maine System LISTSERV maintainer for http://lists.Maine.edu/