At 08:12 06/06/2003 Friday, John Mack wrote:
 >
 >I would like to separate subscribers into 2 groups - those that receive
 >the newsletter
 >and advertisements ONLY and those that receive every message sent to the list
 >(discussions, newsletter, and advertisements).
 >
 >I plan to add the following topics by defining them in the list header:
 >
 >* Topics= NEWS,ADV,DISCUSSION
 >* Default-Topics= NEWS,ADV,OTHER
 >
 >I don't want those subscribers who want to participate in discussions to
 >worry about
 >posting messages with a topic name in the subject line of their posts, nor
 >do I want
 >to insert the topic name during the approval process for messages.
 >
 >I am the only person that posts the newsletters and ADV messages to the list.
 >
 >The messages that I post are not a problem, because I will properly format
 >the sunject
 >line and the messages will get to the right people. I am concerned,
 >however, about the
 >discussion messages posted by subscribers without ANY topic name in the
 >subject line.
 >Will these messages get to the right people - i.e., all subscribers EXCEPT
 >those who
 >just want to receive the newsletter?

Do you want the subscribers to opt-in or -out of the "discussion" topics?

The way you have proposed, they will have to out-out.

Messages sent with NO topic or an incorrect topic are treated as the
reserved topic OTHER:


Adding topics to the list definition does NOT alter existing
subscribers.  As a rule, I explicite do QUIET SET[s]  for existing
subscribers when altering an existing list.  That may not need to be
done, but then I don't have worry about residual info.

/Pete