Alan: I'm posting my reply directly to LSTSRV-L since I'll go home soon. It will probably reach the list before your question so I'm using REPLY TEXT. > Does AFD use distribute? No. > Can it be made to? Not yet, but I'm considering doing something in this direction (only if there is no prolog of course). > Can distribute be given a TO which specifies a list? No problem, or more simply, just SENDFILE the stuff to the list userid (and set Files=Yes and FormCheck=No or something like that). It will go automatically via DISTRIBUTE without your having to build a job header. > > Basically, I want to: > > - Accept subscriptions for mailer distributions from authorized users > such as :contact for himself or for a designated user (e.g. similar > to FOR command). Note that you can use LSVNAD(userid@node) (returns a boolean) to do that. It also checks for alternate contacts, etc. > - Periodically cause an updated distribution to be sent out via > DISTRIBUTE to the users in the subscription list. That's no problem > - Do something similar for KERMIT files more along the lines of > an AFD since those files get updated at different intervals and > are not really a single package like mailer updates are. Sounds great, but I must change the code then. Maybe an AFD=DISTRIBUTE in the filelist header or something like that? > For > KERMIT too I would like to restrict who can subscribe to prevent > multiple subscriptions at the same site. That's a little more difficult to check (you have to look into AFDLIST FILE) but it's feasible. > Also, maybe KERMIT > could be distributed out to several listserv sites? I'll let the list answer this one. Not me -- not enough DASD space. > Am I making sense? Sure. The network would bless you if all KERMIT traffic could be lowered by just a mere little small 30%... :-) Eric