On Wed, 27 Sep 2000 14:34:24 -0400, Michael Hensley <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >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? DISTRIBUTE jobs make no reference to the List Header so of course they will not pay attention to a PRIME= statement. You can include a similar PRIME= sttament as part of the DISTRIBUTE job command syntax. e.g. //FOODTV-0424 JOB PRIME="MON: 00:00-17:59; TUE-SUN: 00:00-23:59" // DISTRIBUTE MAIL-MERGE DBMS=LIST(FOODTV) PW=au33402 , [log in to unmask] //TO DD "1=1" //DATA DD *,EOF From: "Food Network List Manager," <[log in to unmask]> To: Food Network News <[log in to unmask]> Date: &*date; Subject: Food Network News, 04/24/00 This is automatic e-mail that you requested from Food Network. Please do not reply to this e-mail. Replies go to the automatic mailer and cannot be read. ... Since DISTRUBUTE jobs, by definition, do not pass through the list, they are not archived. Via a complex process, you can set everyone in the list to NOMAIL, and then subscribe the list to itself so it will receive a copy of the message and enter it in the archives, but you must be quite careful how you do this.