It would be good here if we had an automated system that would respond to
those with misspelled topics or no topics (like an autoresponder) in lieu
of having to do that manually. But, I don't suppose that is possible at
LISTSERVER'S current state of development?

I have not decided yet if I will turn off everything for OTHER and set up
a separate mail box which I'll subscribe only to receive OTHER, when where
I'll notify participants of the error of their ways [g]..

I did notice that while it greatly adds functionality
it doesn't take much to confuse the troops and posting dropped off as soon
as I did add topics. :-(

Hank

On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, j newton wrote:

> All your assumptions are correct as per my experience. That is how we
> automated the problem of people not topic tagging correctly. I have a system
> that watches for posts on the "other:" topic and sends of a friendly
> reminder that they need to use topics as per the welcome letter and that
> they can turn off the "other:" topic if they don't want to see un-tagged
> posts. Despite the fact that replies to tagged posts often move off into
> la-la land, it has cut complaining about off topics to absolute zero.
>
> Now if I can just get the bounce problem automated...
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: LISTSERV list owners' forum
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of TheGolem
> Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 10:54
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> Subject: TOPICS
>
>
> I just set one of my lists up for topics.
>
> Am I correct in assuming that if they forget to indicate a topic that
> LISTSERVER sends it as "OTHER", i.e.:
>
>  [name of list] OTHER: (subject as stipulated by author)
>
> And, OTHER does not have to be stiuplated for everyone to receive it, or
> it can in  topic-defaults=
>  And, in topic-defaults I can also stipulate "ALL" instead of enumerating
> the topics and everyone is automatically subscribed to all topics until
> they send a "set (name of list) TOPICS:ALL -(topic) to remove one of the
> topics??
>
> Hank
>
> P.S. I didn't receive an answer about vis-a-vis my query about banners so
> I assume it cannot be set up for more rotations than once daily?
>