Jack: I'm not "getting it" -- why doesn't "normal" subscribe/unsubscribe from users "cover" what you want to do? Maybe you don't want an automation list? How about just a long list of RFC822 addresses and use the authorized DISTRIBUTE MAIL functon. /Pete At 11:05 11/28/2000 Tuesday, Jack Schmidt wrote: >Is there anyway to write a script for LISTSERV that will take a text file >and auto update a list? We need to send email to a list of scientists. The >list of scientists change on a monthly basis and instead of having the list >owner do bulk update I was wondering if we could write script to perform the >function automatically?