Duane, I also get this kind of junk mail, except not just from your server but from a large number of them, and I also don't like it. The reason is just that the CUNY-MOP link went down for several hours between the 2 PUT PEERS NAMES command I have to send to a release 1.6 (ie overseas) server to update PEERS NAMES. The first one makes sure the server doing the distribution will know about all the new backbone sites when I send the second one. Anyway the message means DISTRIBUTEd files are taking a very inefficient, one copy per recipient route, and if I suppress it nobody will ever know and it will never get fixed. Eric