LISTSERV  delivers mail  using  DISTRIBUTE, to  reduce  load and  improve
turnaround time.  Unless your BITNET  connection is through a  9.6k line,
this is more efficient than dumping  everything to the local SMTP (unless
the list  is very small).  Now, you may  of course have  recipients whose
BITNET link  is slow and whose  Internet link is fast.  Since most people
run BITNET over  TCP/IP, this is a  silly situation: there is  no need to
keep paying  for a leased  line which actually degrades  performance. But
sometimes the users have no control  over this. In that case, they should
subscribe  under  an  Internet  address  that cannot  be  mapped  to  the
registered BITNET  gateway for  their institution  (say something  with a
percent hack through a non-BITNET machine).
 
  Eric