On the same note, I would like to add a topic to my list which people could then subscribe to without having the entire 1300 subscriber base desubscribe from it. The specialty topic would be of interest to about 1/3 my subscriber base, and I cand justify having them all have to set topics= -newtopic. Is it possible to set up a topic in a manner hat would allow users to NOT get it unless they add the topic to their subscription setting? Paul Prusakowski -----Original Message----- From: LISTSERV list owners' forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Simeon ben Nevel Sent: Monday, January 17, 2000 1:52 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: About topics Hi all! I am considering activating TOPICS on my mailing list. I've reviewed the documentation at lsoft and still have a couple of questions: 1) Are the TOPICS case-sensitive? If I set TOPICS= OT, ADMIN in the list config will the list-server recognize ot:, Ot:, admin:, Admin: etc as valid TOPICS in the subject? 2) Once I set Topics=, will all current subscribers be subscribed to all TOPICS or do I have to do a: quiet set list-name topics: OT, ADMIN, OTHER for everybody? I thought I saw something in the docs about this but I can't seem to find it again. adTHANKSvance! Simeon ben Nevel ListOwner, PetBunny -- [log in to unmask] =-=-=-=-= A rabbit is just an angel with big ears! Send mail to [log in to unmask] with Subject: send index to get a listing of files available from my e-mail robot. <*>