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?