> I attempted to set up a topic entitled "Referral". > What I wanted to do was to set up all members to receive the > topic and allow those uninterested to deselect it. It worked only > as long as the word Referral was the only item in the Subject > Field. This rendered the topic useless. I would like listmembers > to be able to post, for example, Referral needed in Boston. Then a properly formatted subject would have to look like this: Subject: Referral: Referral needed in Boston. > On another list, to which I subscribe topics are followed by the > following symbols :> With Listserv it's only : as shown above which the user must insert. > I attempted to include those in my > configuration but they were rejected as invalid. So, is there a > way to set up topics so that the word "Referral" can be > deselected by listmembers with no interest in referrals, and yet > be followed by enough information to orient members who are? Yes, read: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/1.8d/owner/appendb.html#keyTopics