At 07:03 10/11/2002 Friday, Rich Greenberg wrote: >Topics are only used for people on MAIL NODIGEST. They have no effect >on either the digests or the archives. To add a bit: they are treated as "normal" SUBJECT:s in the index and thus are searchable. Remember that since a TOPIC can be abbreviated to its most unique part then a search of the SUBJECT field for the canonical topic may not find its abbreviation e.g., if a TOPIC of JOBS were defined, and I posted with a topic of JOB, that would be distributed to JOBS recipients, but if you then searched the SUBJECT for JOBS, you would not find that posting. /Pete