Jeff, It's not as easy as you think. First, all the outbound copies of a given file are not identical because of the 'prologtext' feature. Whenever the prologtext is ^= '' I must send the file individually. Second, a file sent via DISTRIBUTE may arrive from another LISTSERV than the one sending the file. Some servers might be AFDed to the file and be programmed to perform a particular action when the origin is LISTSERV@XXXXX, but not just when the origin is [log in to unmask] Lastly, you will generally be AFDed to the server nearest to you. This means that, in case the file is one available on ALL the LISTSERVs, DISTRIBUTE would just end up sending the stuff directly and eating 30s additional CPU to do so. If the file is not available from all the servers, then DISTRIBUTE would be useful. A possible solution: use DISTRIBUTE for those subscribers who have an empty prologtext, unless disabled by a flag in the filelist (which I would set for all the "Peers= ALL" files). Do you think there are many servers which need a DIRECT send WITHOUT prologtext? Eric