My understanding is that if the topic is not in the sublist, it will just be sent to people with the topic of "Other", which on a list without topics is everyone. Francoise On 11 Jan 2007 at 11:27, Paul Russell wrote: > Appended below is a question from one of my list owners. I have changed > the list names in her message, because both are private, internal-use-only > lists. > > If I understand correctly, the list owner intends to enable the topics > feature on a superlist and its sublist, and believes she can prevent some > superlist messages from being distributed to sublist subscribers by using > a topic which is not defined on the sublist. > > I suspect that she is mistaken, but I do not recall ever attempting to use > the Sub-Lists= and Topics= keywords in this manner. I doubt that topics > option settings on the sublist will have any effect on messages posted to > the superlist. I suspect that all messages posted to the superlist will be > distributed to all subscribers on the sublist, with the exception of those > who are subscribed to both lists and have superlist topics option settings > that exclude certain topics. > > Will this work the way the list owner believes it will work? If not, is > there a way to configure a superlist/sublist pair so that only certain > messages posted to the superlist are distributed to the sublist subscribers? > > > I'm getting ready to make some changes to LIST-1 momentarily (as soon > > as Denise gives me owner rights to be able to do so) and I want to > > verify my understandings with you. > > > > We're getting ready to sub-lists = LIST-2 to LIST-1. Therefore > > LIST-1 will be the superlist. > > > > We're going to enable topics = (don't know what keywords we'll use yet) > > to make certain LIST-1 topics private from LIST-2. > > > > LIST-2 will not have topic enabled. > > > > So, for the sublist of the superlist which has topics enabled, and > > message posted to the superlist with out a topic will be distributed to > > everyone both on the super and sublists... correct? > > > > To exclude the sublist, a topic of "private," for example, would only > > distribute to those subscribed to the topic "private" on the > > superlist... correct? > > > > -- > Paul Russell, Senior Systems Administrator > OIT Messaging Services Team > University of Notre Dame > [log in to unmask] -- Francoise Becker There is only one LISTSERV(R) -- the product that launched the email list communication industry in 1986. To discover the story behind LISTSERV, visit: http://www.lsoft.com/corporate/20anniversary.asp