Mendez, Rottman wrote: > Is that a specific command used? Could you please advise on how that > command would be sent out. My suggestion was to use "default-topics=" in the list configuration. For example, Default-Topics= Welcome,other Everyone that you add or subscribe on their own would gain these attributes. You send out a welcoming message when you wish, making sure that the subject line begins with "Welcome:". Then you quietly set all subscribers with topic "-welcome" (left as an exercise). List mail without subject line beginning "Welcome:" is sent to everyone always. Once subscribers are reset with "-welcome", they no longer receive the welcome posts. See the site managers manual (or a detailed list owners manual, I suppose, for more information on Topics. cheers, wayne > -----Original Message----- > From: Wayne T Smith [mailto:[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Monday, May 19, 2003 1:39 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: Announcement by DATE > > Mendez, Rottman wrote: > >>Thanks for the reply, I'm loading by bulk and of course the welcome >>message is not allowed, so once I import my bulk list I want to send a >>welcome message to the emails I imported today, I have 1700 others I >>don't wish to send this message too... is there a command to send to >>subscribers for only subscription date criteria matching today's date? > > > I haven't tried it, but could you add new people with the Topic "New" > (or some such), then, when you get around to it, send the welcoming > message only to "Topic=New" subscribers, then quietly remove topic new > from all subscribers? > > cheers, wayne