I set my LISTS to use topics and I notice that when someone, including me, forgets to indicate a topic, instead of posting as: Subject : OTHER: XXXXXX it simply posts as if there no topic. Now, if I turn OTHER off with a set command for everyone will those posts with mispelled topics or no topics just not be posted? It may be better not to do that if participants continually forget to label? Of course the advantage of the other topics will be to segment and filter what folks don't want. So, I suppose another set command could be to set (list) TOPICS: -OTHER ?? Hank