It is not the business of LISTSERV to play with the list of recipients of a DIST job based on whether or not it is a PUT command from the LMC going to all servers and containing one of the "netwide configuration files". That would be an horrible kludge. There is no problem adding a new tag to PEERS NAMES as you suggest. However, the question is, what does this tag exactly mean? Do you want all the files that would be sent to a backbone server? Just PEERS NAMES and LINKSWT FILE? In that case, they would have to be moved to yet another filelist, as the level of distribution of a file is determined by the filelist it is listed in. In other words, the question is the following: today, there is only one set of files which is distributed to backbone servers, and that is also the set of files that Doron wants. Tomorrow, they may be other files for backbone servers. How do we define whether these files are also part of the set that Doron wants or not? Do we need to distinguish between :backbone.YES files and :Doron.YES ( :-) ) ones? Eric