At 16:51 07/27/2004 Tuesday, Paul Russell wrote:

>In most cases, the welcome message will be relatively static, so it should
>be feasible to put a copy of the welcome message in a separate file that
>can be retrieved using the GET command. On those rare occasions when the
>welcome message is updated, the list owner will need to update the
>appropriate mail template and replace the listname.welcome file.

Adding to what Paul has said ..

If one uses the WEB interface, the WELCOME file template web page can be
bookmarked for even easier updating in the future.

/p