With the changes going on in the North Carolina State network (NCSUVM's removal in March and UNCVM1's this summer) ECUVM1's MAILER and LISTSERV traffic has increased dramatically (can you say over 2000%). Needless to say our little 4381 is a very busy machine now. It has been suggested to us that we change our :BACKBONE entry in the PEERS NAMES file from ":BACKBONE.YES" to ":BACKBONE.YES DISTRIBUTE(NO)". I believe that doing this will not relieve the load on our system, but because of the settings of the :LINKS in BITEARN NODES it will increase the traffic on our system because someone else's LISTSERV will have to to the DISTRIBUTE work for us. My question is: Can someone really explain to me (in detail) the differences between BACKBONE.YES and BACKBONE.YES DISTRIBUTE(NO)? Thanks in advance for any and all help. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Brad S. Carson Bitnet : SSBSC@ECUVM1 Systems Programmer (VM, MVS & VMS) Internet: [log in to unmask] East Carolina University NASCOMM : CarsBraS Austin Building Room 108 Bellnet : (919) 757 - 4346 Greenville, NC 27858