Creating a List with TOPICSList topics provide a way to run a mailing list (preferably moderated) where several sub-topics are being discussed in parallel but some List Subscribers are only interested in a subset of the topics. For example, the subject of a list may be an author who has written under several pseudonyms. Some List Subscribers may only be interested in the books by one or a few of the pseudonyms. The keyword Topics= allows list members to only receive the posts of the pseudonym of interest to them. In order to be successful, such a list requires much discipline on the part of the subscribers since they must label their message subjects to indicate the designated topic(s).
Creating a List with TOPICSList topics provide a way to run a mailing list (preferably moderated) where several sub-topics are being discussed in parallel but some List Subscribers are only interested in a subset of the topics. For example, the subject of a list may be an author who has written under several pseudonyms. Some List Subscribers may only be interested in the books by one or a few of the pseudonyms. The keyword Topics= allows list members to only receive the posts of the pseudonym of interest to them. In order to be successful, such a list requires much discipline on the part of the subscribers since they must label their message subjects to indicate the designated topic(s).TOPICS are not available for the LISTSERV-Lite version so this discussion does not apply.
