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?