Well, the writing is on the wall... CLVM will not be able to qualify as a Listserv backbone site due to the fact that we have to pause out several high-volume lists and DISTRIBUTE during peak hours during the day due to CPU loads. Also, we are in the process of installing a gateway to Nysernet, which is fully gatewayed to the Internet over a 56KB link. The phone company that gave us this gate (for free, no less..) even *wants* load on it. The end result is that I am soon to have a better way to access the Arpanet than Bitnet redistributions, and will not be able to peer lists to backbone sites. Therefore, I will probably be dropping support for the following lists (more may be added later): Chat-l (37 users, peered, Bitnet list) I-Amiga (45 users, peered, gated from [log in to unmask]) Liaison (22 users, peered, Bitnet list) Lstsrv-D (22 users, peered, Bitnet list) Lstsrv-L (30 users, peered, Bitnet list) Mailbook (69 users, peered, Bitnet list) Relay-L (22 users, peered, Bitnet list) RSCSMods (60 users, peered, Bitnet list) SF-Lover (71 users, peered, gated from [log in to unmask]) Unix-Src (73 users, gated from [log in to unmask]) Unix-Wiz (45 users, gated from [log in to unmask]) I would apppreciate it if any interested postmasters got in touch with me to make arraingments if the proposed backbone plan goes into effect. I am sorry for the inconvenience and the probable increased network load, but that's the way it is... All over a lack of cycles during the day. Valdis Kletnieks Systems Programmer Clarkson University