A quick revue (minus the vagaries of ALL and NONE): It takes 3 things to accomplish your task via Revised LISTSERV technology: 1) list-owner has setup the list's TOPICS feature in the definition (see example below) 2) you, the subscriber, have done a LISTSERV SET listname TOPICS: -FWD which only is effective for mail distributions, and not for DIGEST/INDEX mailings 3) the sender uses a valid Subject: in their posting SUBJECT: FWD: xxxxxxx Here is an example syntax using HEPROC-L topics= * Topics= HEJ,Con1,Con2,Con3,Con4,Con5,Con6,Con7,Con8,Con9 NOTICE THAT THERE IS NOTHING MAGICAL ABOUT FWD AND IS NOT A VALID EXPLICIT TOPIC FOR THIS LIST (THUS IT WOULD BE TREATED AS THE RESERVED OTHER: TOPIC).