On Thu, 11 Apr 1996 11:36:42 EDT, you said: > (Sort of creating one set of mailing labels for a department > wanting to send something to a selected group - one shot mass mailing) Why not use a DIST job instead? Here's a template that I use... //TESTJOB JOB Echo=no DISTRIBUTE MAIL FROM=DD=ME PRIOR=49 ACK=MAIL TO DD=DIST //ME DD "[log in to unmask] E-mail God" //DIST DD * [log in to unmask] BSMTP [log in to unmask] BSMTP [log in to unmask] BSMTP /* //DATA DD *,EOF,Res=Disk Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 22:05:34 -0500 Subject: Test Message From: "E-mail Postmaster" <[log in to unmask]> To: Hello.. This is a test message.. /* We use something similar once a month for a 3,000 recipient mailing - we have a little program that extracts the recipeints from a database, builds the job, and sends it to our Listserv. Works like a charm.... -- Valdis Kletnieks Computer Systems Engineer Virginia Tech