>I did a EXPLODE EDTECH (BEST 3 with the hope of finding one good peer in >the USA. Listserv found 3 peers, FRULM11, TREARN, and IRLEARN, and would >move 15, 5, and 3 subscribers respectively. > >My guess is the fact that OHSTVMA also has a Internet gateway, led to >Listserv to determine that most of the subscribers should remain here. The problem is different: for "political" reasons, the EARN<->BITNET link has a very high weight (to avoid having european servers "route" european mail through the US). This cannot be changed without creating a big fuss, there is no point discussing this, please take it for granted. The end result is that, if you have a US list with N europeans on it, a new peer that will get you rid of these N people is going to be considered as good as a US peer taking N*20 US subscribers. There is nothing wrong with this, the code is just doing what it was instructed to do by the weights. But it means that, as long as you have european people on your list, european servers will always show up first. There are 3 solutions to get out of this problem: 1. Increase the value of the BEST parameter until it starts showing US servers. 2. Choose an appropriate EARN peer, move all the european users there, and run the EXPLODE again. 3. Make a test list containing all the non-european users of your list, and EXPLODE that. The most sensible course of action is probably (2). Eric