On: Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 01:50:23PM -0500,Young, David Wrote: } Hi all, } I've been asked to periodically update a newsletter mailing list with } subscribers from a mandatory employees mailing list but allow said } subscribers to opt out of the newsletter list. Except for the opt-out } part, I was going to use the mandatory list as a sub-list for the } newsletter. Has anyone encountered a situation like this and do you have } any suggestions? My quick and dirty approach will probably be to scan } the changelog file after the list has been updated and issue the } necessary add or delete commands accordingly but that seems to be a } major headache. Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks. You could probably do it with topics. Just have one topic, "NEWSLETTER" with the default topic being all and the op-out people being set to set listname-l topics: all -newsletter for userid@host See section 6.7 in the listowners manual. -- Rich Greenberg N Ft Myers, FL, USA richgr atsign panix.com + 1 239 543 1353 Eastern time. N6LRT I speak for myself & my dogs only. VM'er since CP-67 Canines:Val, Red, Shasta & Casey (RIP), Red & Zero, Siberians Owner:Chinook-L Retired at the beach Asst Owner:Sibernet-L