Thanks Steve.  I had not signed on to this list until after my
problems started. When I searched the archives, I was
searching on words like 'abend' and 'LSVBITFD' and didn't catch
Nathan Brindle's post about a 'distribution problem'. I finally
found it while searching with some other words, tried it out,
and LISTSERV has been humming about 15 minutes.  If it stays up
I'll reload my SPTAPE'd backlog.
 
thanks,
kate riggsby