This   night  my   LISTSERV  received   a  DISTRIBUTE   job  directly   from
LISTSERV@TAUNIVM  (why  not,  if  the   original  job  contained  only  french
recipients?). The problem is it then decided to serve 2 recipients and forward
the rest  to CEARN and thence  DEARN. I sent  a few RELEASE commands  here and
there and discovered that  there seems to be at least  4 different versions of
LINKSWT FILE on the  backbone 1.5i servers, and that at  least one 1.5i server
has a 1.5h weight  file. Another problem is that a  lot of postmasters receive
the update  shipments on  a T-disk  and then  COPYFILE them  to the  main disk
without the OLDD  option ("oops.. too late"). This makes  it difficult to know
the version of the file from the time stamp... :-)
 
  I will therefore  send a new LINKSWT  FILE to all the  backbone servers, and
ONLY to the  backbone servers (new 1.5j feature: 'Peers=  Backbone') to see if
it helps solving the problem.
 
  Eric