I'd like to be able to kill off just DISTRIBUTE processing. I can't do an 'offline' and kill mail because we have a few internal mailing lists that DO have to go out, regardless of load. Also, I can HOLD those lists that are non-essential during the day. What I need is to be able to run the needed mail lists during the day, and be safe that no joker drops a big distrib job in on me. I am not terribly concerned about spool space, as we have ACRES of that. We dropped in 300,000 lines of printout and it only rose 2%. :-) (Yes, I know, there IS fragmentation there.. but there is enough spool space that I'm not worried about anything that can sneak in on a 9.6KB link. :-) Valdis