I wrote the following following boiler-plate for our many list owners who use bulk adds to populate topics-moderated lists. The basic process is the same, but you will want to change the 'Default-Options=' setting in the list header, rather than the 'Default-Topics=' setting. -- Paul Russell Senior Systems Administrator University of Notre Dame ----- begin ----- One of the challenges of managing a topics-moderated list is doing bulk-adds of groups of new subscribers when each group is to be subscribed to a different topic or set of topics. This document provides a brief overview of the process. You may use the list management web interface to complete this process, or you may use email to send commands and jobs to the LISTSERV server. For more information about LISTSERV command and job syntax, see the List Owner's Manual <http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/1.8d/owner/owner.html>. Step 1: Save each group of subscriber addresses in a seperate text file with one address per line. Step 2: Edit the list header and change the "Default-topics=" setting to the topic(s) desired for a group of new subscribers. Be sure to store the updated list header. Step 3: Add the corresponding addresses to the list. Repeat steps 2 and 3 for each group of new subscribers. Step 4 (optional): Edit the list header and restore the "Default-Topics=" setting to its original value. Be sure to store the updated list header. ----- end -----