On Sun, 13 Nov 1994 14:57:44 -0500 you said: >are there any lists that currently utilize the TOPICS feature? >I'd like to see how this works in practice. We use TOPICS on the NEW-LIST list. But it is moderated so I can control the topics used (all I have to do is remember to check that!). ;-) Here are the two entries in the NEW-LIST list definition that control this: * Default-Topics= All * Topics= CHANGE,NEW,SEARCH,ADMIN The main reason for doing this is to allow folks to exclude searches from the mail they get. To answer a previous question - you can have the normal subject text following the topic - eg. Subject: NEW: Monkey-L - New list on monkeys and you can have more than one topic ( Subject NEW,CHANGE: XYZ-L Moved, ... Marty > >Jeff >