We have a list that we use to send files to many recipients at adjacent nodes to us. However, since 1.5o uses DIST2 to process these, this ends up creating a job that is sent to the nearest backbone server (3 hops) which then sends the files right back to these adjacent nodes (4+ hops). Rather wasteful. So, how do I get these files to be sent without using DIST2? Does this (a) require a change to LOCAL SYSVARS "LOCAL" variable? If so, to what? (b) require setting DISTOFF to 1? I'd rather not, since we use DIST2 for other lists. (c) require a list header keyword that I don't know about? If so, what? (d) something else? Many Thanks & Regards, Darryl Marsee Syracuse University