How work with Facebook Page Subscription Messaging - facebook

I'm working on Facebook Messenger chatbot and I've found documentation about Facebook Page Subscription Messaging. This feature allow your bot to send messages to users, outside of the "stardard" 24 hours messaging.
Facebook's documentation explains what is Subscription Messaging
but I've not found more details about how implement it.
My questions:
Is there any back-office to be able to send this kind of message ? For example to allow a Community Manager to send this messages
In the case where to do code is mandatory, I suppose I have to build a Facebook's users list and use it to send "Subscription Message" type to each. Can I send these messages to these users at the same time or I have to do some packets or add a small timeout between each messages ?
What happends if I send a "Subscribe Message" to an user who have unsubscribed to my bot's messages ?
Thanks !

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