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 -