WINSHIP writes: > The ones with specific topics are your more sophisticated > subscribers who have looked at the header, seen that you have installed > the Topics keyword, and know what it means and how to change their > options. It's impossible, I just put topics in a couple of days ago. The users with specific TOPIC headings aren't that sophisticated - I know them personally 8-). > Of course, that is rather futile on their part since you haven't > announced the use of Topics so probably no one is putting the keywords in > the subject line, so it's the same as not having Topics at all. For > Topics to work the subscribers have to know about it and cooperate by > putting the keywords in the subject line, or there is no point to it. Well, no, the list is moderated, so I've been sending to a few experimental addresses with the TOPIC keywords. > If you install > Topics and then decide it isn't working for your list, is there any > problem with just deleting it from the header? I'd like to know too. Wouldn't want to wake up and find I had no list... One thing further occurs to me. After installing TOPICs in the header, I tried to set topics for my own address, which is also the address listserv recognizes as listowner. So I sent a message to listserv set h-amstdy topics: cfp inq info Could that have caused the foul-up in some way? Could this have affected just some people who were changing their subscription options in some way? Jeff