You've answered you own question!

The two modes of ADDing are NOT equivalent: one sends the WELCOME and one
does not, among other differences.

At 21:42 6/4/97 -0400, you wrote:
|I will be setting up a couple lists shortly where I will be adding many
|subscribers upfront. I was doing a little testing on another list, and I
|couldn't get it to send the welcome message or an acknowledgement. It was
|acting as if I was doing a quiet add. But I was using:
|
|add paleofood dd=x import pw=xxxxx
|//x dd *
[log in to unmask] Don Wiss
|/*
|
|and sending it to maelstrom at St. Johns. This is the acknowledgement sent
|to me:
|
|> add paleofood dd=x import
|ADD: no error, one recipient added, no entry changed, none forwarded.
|
|Why no welcome message or acknowledgement? When I send in a:
|
|add paleofood [log in to unmask] Don Wiss
|
|they are being sent.
|
|Don.
|(in Digest mode)
|
|

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