Hi All, I've got a strange problem with my list that I'd appreciate comments on. It actually involves my own address. Posts from my list take an extra hop through the university that is upstream of my ISP before they arrive. This usually doesn't cause much of a delay except for yesterday when the university apparently experienced server problems and posts were held up until this morning. The totally strange thing about this is that not only do command replies from the server which hosts my list come directly back to my ISP without the stop-over at the university, but posts from a second list that I am on at the same listserver come directly as well. This has me perplexed, especially as both lists on that same server are set up with: "Mail-Via= Distribute" The only difference in that setting between the two lists (which I noticed just now) is that my list has a capital "V" in "via", where as the other has a lower case "v". Does anyone know if that would make the difference in delivery paths, and if not, any clues on what would? I'm preparing to change it anyway, just for the sake of it, since it's all I can find that has any chance of being the reason. As a side note, posts from LSTOWN-L also hop through the university on the way here, so at least it isn't only my list. :) It is however the only other list I've found that takes such a hop. Admittedly I'm not subscribed to more than a few lists so it's not a huge sampling to make a statement about if most lists take the extra hop or not. I was at one point on a third list hosted by the server my list is on, and posts from there also came directly. Thanks in advance for any assistance. Patrick