I've been trying and TRYING to get listserv to act on the following command: q ethic with halacha for *@* or ethic with topics: +halacha q ethic with topics:+halacha for *@* plus several other variations. Am I doing something wrong or is it only possible to query for the basic options of nomail, digest, conceal, and so forth. I am teaching a partly e-mail course with a colleague from Temple, and am using the Topics feature to separate the class into several sections with different faculty leaders. I realize I can manually (well, write a WordPerfect macro) separate subscribers into their various sections according to their topics in the global query file I received, BUT it would be nice to have Temple Listserv do that little chore for me. BTW, I think this is an unusual application of the TOPICS feature, and so far it's working well. It allows us to have students/faculty communicate within small sections AND get everyone involved at other times. Thanks, Ingrid Shafer [log in to unmask] and [log in to unmask]