At 01:06 PM 9/2/98 EDT, John Roraback PhD wrote: >In a message dated 98-09-01 13:24:51 EDT, [log in to unmask] writes: > >> In addition to what Mary has said: have (part of) your bottom_banner be a >> one-line URL that points to to a WEB page that contains the current topics. > >Pete & Mary.... These are a good ideas.... in fact, I had already placed the >TOPICS in the bottom banner some time ago, and I do post the TOPICS >periodically <grin>. However, I am continually amazed at how little folks read >and absorb, and I have tried to create redundancies in a number of other ways >as well to help overcome this. > >Just seemed to me that it would be logically consistent to add the feature of >indicating all avaialble TOPICS in the response to the QUERY command. In fact, >if the text in the QUERY response message were customizable by the list-owner, >I would probably also add some text describing the other mail receipt options >and the syntax of the commands for changing them. John, It's likely that those who know how to use QUERY, heck even just those who know QUERY *exists*, don't need much help from us list owners when it comes to figuring things out. This change seems like lots of work for L-Soft to do for little return. Perhaps modifying a periodic PROBE is a better way to go. *Everyone* would get that message, you can put whatever you want into it, and you determine its frequency. Ed