At 16:57 2/23/98 PST, you wrote:
|I would like to setup my list to take advantage of the <topics>
|option, but I want to make sure I am clear on what will occur.
|
|If I add to my header TOPICS= yyy zzz  then subscribers can set
|their options to <set topics zzz> and receive only those messages
|with zzz in the subject. Subscribers who do not <set topics> will
|continue to receive all messages.

See the attachment for a simplified over-view, and of course, see the
list-owners manual

http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/owner/owner.html

/Pete



It takes 3 things to accomplish your task via Revised LISTSERV
techology:

1) list-owner has setup the list's TOPICS feature in the
   definition (see example below)

2) you, the subscriber, have done a LISTSERV

   SET listname TOPICS: -FWD

   which only is effective for mail distributions, and not
   for DIGEST/INDEX mailings

3) the sender uses a valid Subject: in their posting

   SUBJECT: FWD: xxxxxxx

Here is an example syntax using HEPROC-L topics=

* Topics=          HEJ,Con1,Con2,Con3,Con4,Con5,Con6,Con7,Con8,Con9

Notice that there is nothing magical about FWD and is not a valid
explicit topic for this list (thus it would be treated as the
reserved OTHER: topic).