I am the owner of one part of a peered list. Occasionally, I will receive word of this and other times I will see a post rejected by some site for "too many hops". Here is what seems to happen: 1- duplicate...the post was posted to the listserver here or at one of the other sites. The organization is a 3-point star, with 4 peers: 3 4 | / | / | / 2 | 1 Occasionally, mail posted to one of the peers (say 4) will be delivered to another node (say 3) by the LSoft servers. Some still seems to go via node 2 to subscribers at 1, 2 and 3. So the original poster gets a message back saying the post was rejected as a duplicate. I assume this is done to relieve congestion? It is a source of some confusion for the subscribers. 2- This also adds to the hop count for posts and some mail is rejected for "too many hops" I don't think there are too many peered lists anymore, so I doubt too many are seeing this. But I did wonder if my understanding of the routing and such was correct. -- Joe Kelley [log in to unmask]