>Can someone explain to me in decent detail, or point me towards some
>documents that explain, how to implement the TOPICs stuff?
 
Since this has been discussed at length on lstown-l, it would really be
your best bet to send the following to listserv@searn (aka
searn.sunet.se):
 
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