Ummm...just to be clear here...there are two separate suggestions
using the same technical means here...

1) Douglas Palmer's suggestion:  Modify the $SIGNUP form to be the
same as the Welcome Message and then delete the welcome message (i.e.,
listname.WELCOME)...

2) Pete Weiss's suggestion:  Modify the $SIGNUP form to contain .QQ at
the top (or as the only line) which will disable it entirely and cause
Listserv not to send it at all.  In this case one *leaves* the welcome
message as is so that the subscriber gets only that.

In either case, one needs to GET and PUT the listname.MAILTPL file to
accomplish the task.

Dennis

On Tue, 28 May 2002, Pete Weiss wrote:

> At 11:00 05/28/2002 Tuesday, Douglas Palmer wrote:
> >At 09:04 AM 5/28/2002 +0200, you wrote:
> >
> >>How can I stop the delivery of the standard message to new subscribers
> >>[$SIGNUP] so that only the Welcome Message is sent?
> >
> >Modify the $SIGNUP form for the list to be the same as the welcome message,
> >and remove the welcome message.
>
> Which means ...
>
> GET listname MAILTPL
>
> If there is a section
>
>  >>> $SIGNUP
>
> then modify it with by adding at the top of that section the single line
>
> .QQ
>
> then save the file and PUT it back on the LISTSERV.  If there is no
> listname MAILTPL, or section with that name, then add the section and
> store in to the LISTSERV.  See also:
>
> http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/1.8d/owner/owner.html#9
>
>
>    QED
>