There is a PRIME= option you can put on the JOB line. You may be more 
interested in the AFTER= option which lets you specify a time after 
which the mailing may be sent. See the developer manual.

Francoise

On 18 Apr 2006 at 15:34, Bruno Robichaud wrote:

> Sorry if im of track but is it possible to use the prime keyword in a DBMS
> backend mail-merge distribute job so that way I send to command with the
> prime keyword and listserv only send email 2 hour after it received the
> command depending on what I put for parameter in the prime keyword. And if
> I'm off track in this thread , is possible to do that with other setting?
> I'm just curious. :)
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: LISTSERV site administrators' forum
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Stan Horwitz
> Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 3:26 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Send a List after hours
> 
> On Apr 18, 2006, at 2:23 PM - 4/18/06, Patrick B. O'Brien wrote:
> 
> > It looks like prime-time stops all list emails. I only want to stop  
> > one
> > List, 200000 emails, from sending its email between say 9-5.
> 
> Use the "prime" keyword. This works fine within an individual list to  
> control when postings to it will be distributed.

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