Well, DISTRIBUTE is a command, but it is also an option. As a command
it can be used for one time distibutions to the list regardless of
subscribers mail option settings.  It is also an option for the
"Mail-via=" keyword.  All my lists are set
* Mail-via= Distribute
and it works fine, notebooks, archives (they are huge) etc.

Kinda like "review."  Which "distribute" are we talking about here?

Douglas


On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Pete Weiss wrote:

> If I understand what you're saying, the DISTRIBUTE command has nothing to do what so ever with [subscription]  list proceessing; therefore, the list keywords e.g., NOTEBOOK= and PRIME-TIME= (sp?) are not involved.
>
> DISTRIBUTE is useful in circumstances where you need to do:
>
> 1) one-time mailings
> 2) list distribution diagnostics that can't be solved through careful analysis of bounces or other list functions like active/passive probing
> 3) [maybe others]
>
> At 14:34 09/27/2000 Wednesday, Michael Hensley wrote:
>
> >We have recently begun to use the distribute command to send our lists, and
> >we have discovered that lists sent via the DISTRIBUTE command do not
> >respond to prime settings in the list header, nor are they automatically
> >archived.  Is there something we are missing?
>
>