On Sat, 29 Aug 1998 17:58:36 -0400 Mary Schweitzer said: >Nathan Brindle wrote: > >> In a case like this I would suggest separate lists, and make them all >> sub-lists of a super-list which would be used to post messages that >> all of the users (regardless of language) should receive. That way >> the digests will contain only what you want them to contain. This is >> the most efficient way to handle your needs, and it will be >> immediately obvious to the user that he has signed up for the German >> list, or the French list, or ..., without a need to set an explicit >> topic once he has subscribed. > >The problem with this design, as I see it, is that those of us who pay >per subscriber are going to end up paying twice -- once for the sublist, >once for the superlist. Is that correct? Umm...no...not unless you have the subscriber on both lists. This would be more of a problem if you have a graduated LAK and are limited to a finite number of <lists>. Technically your super-list doesn't have to have any subscribers at all (and it would use 1 point). I mean, LISTSERV doesn't go through and say "Oh, we have a super-list, let's count up all of the subscribers on the sub-lists and force the customer to use x number of points just for the super-list". Or have I misunderstood the question? Nathan