On Wed, 29 Nov 1995 15:09:31 EST Larry Eckley said: >As a novice list owner, I am having trouble with the welcome message. >I have a custom message which goes out ok, but the 'canned' message also is >delivered for each subscriber. How do I disable this? Thanx You would make a listname.MAILTPL file for your list and disable the SIGNUP1 template. >>> SIGNUP1 .qq is all you would need. However, I think I'd migrate the welcome file into the $SIGNUP template instead, rather than disabling that template. There's a lot of good information in it that probably ought to go to the new subscriber. You could tack your welcome message on top of the "canned" text. See Chapter 9 of the List Owner's Manual for more info. Nathan