Please elaborate, because I am confused - your comment " ... disable it ... " appears to contradict this excerpt from the manual:

L-Soft international, Inc.

List Owner's Manual
for
LISTSERV®, version 1.8d


5 May 2000
Revision 1
     
  (distribution keywords section, page 166)
Mail-Via= DISTRIBUTE | DIST2 | Direct

This keyword is not available in LISTSERV Lite.

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.


>>> [log in to unmask] 08/22/01 12:10PM >>>
>An excellent FAQ response by Ben on the paths e-mail takes wrt
>LISTSERV!
>
>"Outbound" is a little too simplified though.  It is correct enough for
>command responses, but list distributions may take a significantly
>more perverse route through other LISTSERV sites ...
><soapbox>a feature I'd like to be able to disable (without loss of
>CATALIST)</soapbox>.

"Mail-Via= Direct" allows you to disable it on a list-by-list basis.

Thanks,
--
Jacob Haller, Technical Support
L-Soft international, Inc
http://www.lsoft.com/