Hello,

Regarding the idea of setting up a new topic on a pre-existing listserver
that would require subscribers to then ADD the topic before receiving
postings to that topic...

1. I added a new topic to my list of topics in the header.
2. I then sent the following command: quiet set oandp-l topics: -newtopic
for *@*
3. A message was returned stating that subscription options were changed for
1358 subscribers.... Good I thought...
4. I sent a test message with the topic as the first word in the subject
line, and got an acknowledgement back stating that 56 recipients got the
message.

How could that happen if I sent a command to remove that topic from
everyone's settings?  The number that came back after  step number 2 was the
same number as my entire subscription base.... I find it strange that 56
people still got the message!

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

We are trying to provide a professional association with a channel of
reaching ONLY its membership through this listserver.  The list has been
recognized as THE global discussion group for my profession, and we don't
want to start a second list so we would like to create a loosely controlled
"sub list' within the list by using TOPICS.

Thanks a lot.

Paul Prusakowski



-----Original Message-----
From:   LISTSERV list owners' forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Simeon ben Nevel
Sent:   Monday, August 16, 1999 3:23 PM
To:     [log in to unmask]
Subject:        Re: About topics

Paul said:

> On the same note, I would like to add a topic to my list which people
> could then subscribe to without having the entire 1300 subscriber base
> desubscribe from it. [...] Is it possible to set up a topic in a manner
> hat would allow users to NOT get it unless they add the topic to their
> subscription setting?

You could always do a:

     quiet set listname topics: -newtopic for *@*

to handle the job for your subscribers.

Simeon

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