>How many characters can I use for a unique topic? Sandy, One answer to your question is that you can only use effectively as many characters as are likely for a user to remember how to spell/type correctly. For example, your samples would not be unique until the person typed the very last letter, a or b. That's expecting a lot from a mere human. (TOPICs can be entered to their shortest unique spelling, so TOPICs Meetings:, Schedules: and Horario: could be typed m:, s: and h:.) You might wish to strive for "How short and memorable can I make my TOPICs?" Peter >Date: Sat, 6 Apr 1996 16:55:25 -0800 >From: Sandy Barnes <[log in to unmask]> >How many characters can I use for a unique topic? For example can I use >ern-wps-devel-a >ern-wps-devel-b >and expect it to work? Is it restricted to eight characters or something >like that?