If the dates on the filelist have not been updated, LISTSERV has definitely not sent out any AFD. You're not supposed to "sneak in" updates by stopping LISTSERV, changing the CMS files corresponding to the filelist files, and restarting it. It could explicitly check for that at startup, but then that's exactly what NETSERV does and NETSERV takes 5 hours to start on the BITNIC machine. Eric