Can someone refresh my memory on how LISTSERV bunches recipients into notes going to MAILER and then onto the rest of the world? I know it tries to bundle as many users as it can into the same note, but I thought under some conditions it limited the number of recipients per note to five, sending multiple copies of a note to the same node if necessary rather than sending to more than five users at a time. I think this is tied to listing names individually instead of "Multiple recipients of list ....", but I forget what determines that, too. Right now, IRISHVMA has a couple of local lists with about 100 recipients on nd.edu. It looks like it's trying to pump through one message to nd.edu listing all 100 recipients, and for some reason, (X)MAILER 2.10 is choking after 92 or so recipients consistently. As a work-around, I'd like to tell LISTSERV to go to five-recipients- per-package mode for these lists, but I've forgotten how to twist the list definitions or LOCAL SYSVARS. Thanks, Nick * [log in to unmask] * [log in to unmask]