Preferably use the web administration interface to edit the "Standard message to new subscribers [$SIGNUP]" template for the list in question. Or you can GET default.mailtpl, make adjustments, then PUT it as listname.mailtpl. Alternatively, copy default.mailtpl to listname.mailtpl and make your edits there, if you have direct access to the server filesystem. If you take the file-level approach, note that you may omit from listname.mailtpl any individual templates that don't need customizing for the particular list, and those in the default file will still be used for that list. Confer with your site administrator for more help with the fine details of the process. As you have observed, the list WELCOME message is sent in addition to the signup message, so you may want to remove the WELCOME message after you have adjusted the signup to suit your preferences. >>> [log in to unmask] 12/11/03 12:28PM >>> 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 -