Just extract the section from the default.mailtpl file and modify what you
want on it...then store it as your_list_name-L.mailtpl on your listserv
server.  Ex:  I have a list called Members-L  so I stored a mailtpl file by
the name of Members-L.mailtpl with a different Welcome Message for members
of just that list.  No other list was affected by this change.

Make sure you use the PUT= and PW
and make sure you copy from the >>> $SIGNUP Standard message to new
subscribers...
to the acknowledgements completely with "SET &LISTNAME NOACK NOREPRO".  You
can modfy anything in between those lines.

Kevin


At 12:28 PM 12/11/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>I would like to change the default message that people receive when they
>subscribe to a list (the one that starts off with "Please save this
>message for future reference, especially if this is the first time you are
>subscribing to an electronic mailing list."
>
>It looks like this message is stored in the "default.mailtpl" file. What
>is the recommended way to modify this message and can it be adjusted for
>an individual list? I added a "welcome" message to my test list, but this
>doesn't seem to replace the multiple-paragraph set of instructions that
>people receive when they subscribe.
>
>- Steve -