In article <[log in to unmask]>, H-Amstdy Comoderator
<[log in to unmask]> says:
 
An owner can define zero, one, or more (max ?? 11 or 13 ??) explicit
topics, plus the implicit reserved NONE, ALL, OTHER.  A subscriber
can filter on the same implicit+explicit set.  A poster can include
none, one, more topics: in the Subject: line.  Thus I guess you
can have your cake and eat it too: you skim for your topic of
interest, or exclude those topics in which you are NOT interested.
 
OTHER means that a "non-defined" topic is being used.  New subscribers
are assigned ALL implicitly, unless the owner has over-riden that
assignment with the DEFAULT-TOPICS= value.
 
When updating existing topics, you need to be careful.  I refer you
back to the LSTOWN-L archives for the ifs/ands/ors/buts.
 
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