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).