I was preparing to help someone else set up a list with topics, so I have
reviewed material but have not yet used them myself. One of these examples
sounds odd to me:

From: "Ben Parker"
>
>   some invalid examples:
>
>   Subject: Bird This message is about birds
>   (no ":", will go to ALL and OTHER topics, but not to Bird topic)
>
>   Subject: Cat: This message is about cats
>   (valid syntax, but CAT is not a topic, will go to ALL and OTHER)

I had understood that the ALL topic must be specified, and that messages
with no recognized topic went only to OTHER.

Can this be clarified?

Hal Keen