Bill: Probably what happened is that when you added the TOPICS feature to the existing list, the already-subscribed folks were implicitly set to NONE, even though you had correctly defined a DEFAULT-TOPICS= keyword. At this point in time, you could take several approaches, probably none of which will produce "no pain." One approach is to: As list-owner, issue the command -- QUIET SET UNINFSEC TOPICS: ALL FOR *@* then e-mail subscribers suggesting that they reset topics: as you had posted once before. -- co-owner INFOSYS, TQM-L, CPARK-L, ERAPPA-L, JANITORS, LDBASE-L, et -L [log in to unmask] "Are cycle-stealers thieves? ;-)" +1 814 863 1843 31 Shields Bldg. -- Penn State Univ -- University Park, PA 16802-1202 USA