If NICSERVE saves large file requests until after midnight when most of my users have logged off and gone home I have no problem with using DISTRIBUTE to send the files. Especially when the alternative is for me to have to wait 3 weeks and still not get my file, or to have to receive and then send 10 copies to people beyond me in the network. I'd just as soon receive one copy and generate the others needed. NICSERVE needs to have a size threshold beyond which files are sent via distribute. Small files can be sent now, big ones should be held and DISTRIBUTED after midnight to everyone who requested them in the past 24 hours. Harold