Adding a Article without a snapshot

Dear All

I know the general rule is that if you add an article to an existing subscription then it needs a snapshot, however I would like to know if its possible to do it without one. The reason is that the table we will be replicating is about 800GB in size and 99.9999% of the data already exists on the Subscriber. Basically someone (not me) accidently removed the Article.

We use traditional transaction replication with a distributer and one subcriber.

The alternative is to create another publication with just that subscription however its not something we really want to do.

Thanks

Peter