>Date:         Wed, 24 Mar 1993 11:53:02 CET
>Reply-To:     LISTSERV list owners' forum <[log in to unmask]>
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>Organization: Institut fuer Medizinische Computerwissenschaften
>Subject:      Re: Clarification needed about "TOPICS" header
>To:           Pete Weiss <[log in to unmask]>
>In-Reply-To:  Message of Wed, 24 Mar 1993 11:43:50 +0100 from <ERIC@SEARN>
 
>Methink the question was (trying to rephrase):
>"Is it possible that postings w/o topic  go to everyone whereas those with
>go only to a subset of subscribers?"
 
Postings w/o topics are classified as the reserved topic OTHER.  If a
subscriber filters by topic and has not included topic OTHER, then
they are not supposed to receive un-topic-ed postings (at least that's
how I think it works).
 
/Pete ([log in to unmask])
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