You solution could be simple or beautifully complex.  QUIET ADD
suppresses the the template and any possible WELCOME file.  Then you can
simply email your "special" subscribers an attachment.  Of course the
mail would originate FROM: you instead of listname-REQUEST.

/Pete

At 17:46 5/6/98 -0400, John Kelly said:
>>>>
I would like to send a welcome message to all the new subscribers of the
list I maintain, without sending the standard blurb... Since my list is
not open to subscription and I add all the names myself, I added the
users "quiet add.." I would now like to send certain people on the list a
welcome message that was drafted specifically for this list. I don't want
to screw up the default.mailtpl file, so should I make a listname.mailtpl
file? and if so where do I add the text for the welcome message? and how
do I send that file to people I want to receive it?\


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