The dev guide doesn't say you do this with ADD. You have to import the data into the table with standard DBMS methods if you want to preserve the user options field (the data in columns 81-100). So what you should do is break the data from the list down into three columns: an EMAIL column, a NAME column, and an OPTIONS column. Then you should be able to import the data into the DBMS table using, say, some sort of delimited data import method. If you don't care about the user options transferring over, you can certainly use a bulk ADD job, but it can't contain the user option string. Since you're migrating from a native format list to a DBMS list, I would imagine you'd want to keep the options, in which case a bulk ADD won't work for you. Nathan