My co-listowner and I are confused, and hope someone can enlighten us. We are maintaining a number of lists, each with multiple topics. If we set a subscriber's topics to ALL on any given list, are we telling the list to send that subscriber every post that is sent to the list, or are we defining a new topic named ALL which will only receive posts directed to ALL:blahblahblah? In the alternative, is there a way to set Default-Topics so that new subscribers are added without subscribing them to any topics? I know it sounds wierd, but this option would be helpful for some scripting that my co-listowner is doing. Sherry ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sherry Beauchamp Social Science Research Network (SSRN) [log in to unmask] http://www.SSRN.Com Leading Social Science Research Delivered to Your Desktop Daily -------------------------------------------------------------------------