In checking my AFD list for LISTSERV@BITNIC I noticed that I am signed up for the same named file on multiple filelists. For example BITNET GATES on NETINFO and also on NODEINFO. I presume this happened because I did not specify a filelist when I made the AFD request so LISTSERV signed me up for all filelists with those file names. The question is, though, are these the same or different files? If the same, does it matter which copy I request? Is LISTSERV actually keeping two copies of the same thing or playing funny games with pointers so that the same thing appears to be in more than one place? If it's is done with mirrors will LISTSERV really try to send me two copies when it replaces the file and updates the pointers in both filelists? There doesn't appear to be anything in the mail header (at least as translated from NJE to WYLBUR) which identifies which filelist a file has come from. Since the redundancy was about 20% even in my small list of files I hope there really aren't two copies of the same thing really out there. If so, perhaps we ought to discuss (on NODMGT-L?) which filelists particular files belong in so we can eliminate the duplicates. /June To: LSTSRV-L(LSTSRV-L@POLYGRAF) cc: AKLOM@BITNIC