After reading all the argumentation that has been going on in the last few mess ges, I mm inclined to agree with Eric. We are an almost dead-end node, but we r un one of the few LISTSERV's out here in the outer darkness -- I'd rather use D ISTRIBUTE because our disk/spool space is severly limited, as well as our admin s willingness to create seperate list-id's. DISTRIBUTE is efficient and fast, e ven on this poor overworked 4341-1. Like Eric said, it's like RSCS. You share a little CPU with the net in return f or the CPU they share with you. Sounds fair enough to me. Valdis has a valid point on messing with the WISCVM gateway stuff -- that stuff is ugly, and it doesn't need to get any worse. Perhaps a local command for the closest LISTSERV site could handle processing the ARPA digest stuff into a DIS T job and then the LISTSERV net could take it from there. That would involve th e least amount of screwing around on the gateways' part and make things fairly simple on our side too. Any takers? David Boyes Systems University of Oregon Computing Center