SUVM recently joined the backbone. It seems that as long as LISTSERV has sufficient DIST2 jobs in its reader it doesn't run any reader scans for local lists. Is that true? If so is there any way to convince LISTSERV to do the reader scans anyway? BTW when we were not part of the backbone, someone (CLVM?) was sure doing a lot of work for us. Thanks! Glenn A. Malling (NETMAN@SUVM) or [log in to unmask] Computing & Network Services (315)-443-4111 Machinery Hall Syracuse University Syracuse, New York 13244