150 servers have now installed release 1.7 and, as expected, the DISTRIBUTE patterns have changed dramatically in the past week. The percentage of jobs from FRORS12 I received at SEARN was down to 2.3% on friday, and 1.6% on saturday. Now that the DISTRIBUTE traffic is taking routes similar to those of regular NJE traffic, most of the LISTSERV traffic that goes via France has its final destination in one of the countries in the "french area"; that is, France no longer acts as the one-and-only DISTRIBUTE entry point in Europe. I am now adding FRMOP11 to the DISTRIBUTE backbone in order to decrease the load on the nationally funded FRMOPxx-FRORSxx line, as requested by EARN-France. Routing for the following "subtree" of backbone servers is affected: FRMOP11 +-> BEARN --> BNANDP11 +-> UKACRL +-> TAUNIVM +-> BGUVM | +-> TECHNION +-> FRORS12 --> FRULM11 +-> PTEARN +-> TREARN --> TRMETU +-> GREARN All these servers were previously routed through FRORS12 instead. Germany may or may not be routed via FRMOP11, depending on where the distribution originates from; this is due to a reorganization of the international connections in Germany (the 64k line between DEARN and FRMOP22 is to be cancelled for political reasons, with all traffic to Europe being sent over IXI), and I hope things will settle down within the next 2 months. Finally, there is a good chance that switching to FRMOP11 will also remove the file corruption problem that is responsible for the X-DEL storms (for all but the north of France, that is still routed via FRORS12). In any case, with 150 servers running CRC checks on DISTRIBUTE jobs, I (hate to have to take the responsibility of saying I) believe it should now be reasonably safe to pull out all X-DEL filters and mods so that people can start unsubscribing expired accounts again. Eric