> how to eat the cake and keep the eggs intact, just send one copy to > the archive and tell the users via a simple and short text message > that a document awaits them at http://host.myhost/archives/mylist.html > Wouldn't it be great to have such an option ? You could: Send: set listname nomail for *@* Send the file to the list. Then send: set listname mail for *@* Then send your short message to the list subscribers re: the document is waiting. This would accomplish what you want with the only drawback being anyone originally set to NOMAIL would be set to MAIL when you were finished.