I personally don't like sending digests out at midnight-- almost all my lists are set to send them out at 6am est. That's partially a personal quirk-- when I first started doing this, I used to always be up at 6, so I'd know the digests I read in the morning would all be very recent. I also figured that it would be better to include this so that posts sent after midnight on the West coast would still show up in the day's digest. I don't have a good solution for you as a listserv maintainer, except that having the largest lists set to distribute their digests at off-peak hours (maybe between 4 and 6 am? EST?) could probably help matters considerably. Regarding posts-per-person limits and daily post limits, I don't think that's too relevant, since those limits are -daily-, whether spooled over to the next day or not, they still count -somewhere-. --Julie -- [log in to unmask] http://drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu/~julie/ Julie Waters / JULIET SWEAR / WAITER JULES / jules WEAR IT / jules EAR WIT / SEW julie ART / REUSE LIT JAW / jail STEW RUE / jilt USER AWE / WILT US A jeer /