I think Michael was talking about seeing all the recipients at his node, not all of the recipients on the list. I presume local recipients from a remote list are grouped together so one note is passed to MAILER@LOCAL and the note is passed around. But if the list is local, there is no savings in network traffic by bunching the recipients, so LISTSERV seperates them, which is what Mike was seeing. This is what we've all seen with local and remote lists; Mike's just noticing that a remote list being DISTRIBUTEd acts like REMOTE-L@LOCAL, not REMOTE-L@REMOTE, which is the case when mail-via is not set to DISTRIBUTE. Nick