Michael, I agree with you but it should be understood that neither you not me can speak for the sites which are not willing to spend CPU for LISTSERV. The problem is not much the DISTRIBUTE job itself, but the fact that you want it sent to NON-BACKBONE servers as well since these servers also have lists (don't dey? :-) ). Then these non-backbone servers have to incur some CPU expenses which they might precisely find unjustified. If only backbone servers were affected I wouldn't be so worried since it doesn't cost more than a regular medium-to-large DIST job such as we see maybe 100 times a day (bless INFO-VAX). Eric