On Fri, 30 Dec 1994 08:10:03 -0600, Winship <[log in to unmask]> said:
>And I'ld like to see an explanation as to why one shouldn't reorder the
>topics and leave a blank in the line if you take one out.
> Douglas Winship Austin, Texas [log in to unmask]
This seems pretty adequately explained in the 1.7f release notes. Please
refer to the notes for complete description.
Bill
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Through the "Topics=" keyword, the list owner can define up to 11 topics
for the list. For instance, the list owner could code:
Topics= News,Benchmarks,Meetings,Beta-tests
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* WARNING - YOU MUST NEVER REORDER THE TOPICS= KEYWORD *
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To save disk space, LISTSERV remembers which topics users have selected
through their ordering in the "Topics=" keyword. That is, "News" is
"topic number 1" for LISTSERV, "Benchmarks" is "topic number 2", and so
on. This means you can change the name of a topic without requiring users
to alter their subscriptions (for instance, you could decide that "Tests"
is a better name than "Beta-tests" and just make the change). However,
you must never change the order of the topics in the "Topics=" keyword.
If you want to remove a topic, replace it with a comma. For instance, to
remove the "Meetings" topic, you would change the keyword to:
Topics= News,Benchmarks,,Beta-tests
This restriction might be removed in a future release.
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