thank you Meera...I kept putting off answering so I could actually comment,
but since I still don't have time to be coherent, I at least wanted to thank
you for the explanation. It turns out I was not that confused about what the
sub-topics do after all. Your examples made it a lot clearer.
Troy
> From: Meera Barry
> Reply-To: listowners@phoenyx.net
> Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 00:51:52 CDT
> To: listowners@phoenyx.net
> Subject: Re: LO: Whoo-hoo!
>
> On Sun, 5 Aug 2001, Troy Johnson wrote:
>
>> They -seem- really powerful but I can't seem to wrap my head around what
>> they do exactly or how to use them in play. Are they essentially subtopics
>> with their own mailing lists?
>
> I'd have to say basically yes, but here's more.
>
> I can tell you what I'm doing, and with some help from
> the help page, I'll see if I can make it make sense. Anyone
> with more knowledge is welcome to amend, append, or exclaim.
>
> After a discussion about a "Chat" or "Kibbitz" list, I
> looked into the subtopic help.
>
> http://www.phoenyx.net/help/mod_topics.html
>
> What I wanted was to set up two lists. An "OOC Chat" list
> for various chatter, and a "Fashion" list so we can say stuff
> like:
>
> "DAY ONE:
>
> Fiona is wearing a red dress, made entirely of lace, one layer at the
> top, in a keyhole cut, that turns into two layers of lace in the mid-calf
> length skirt. She wears a red velvet jacket over it, that extends into tails
> towards the back. Her hair is gathered with a golden hairband, and
> around her neck is a red velvet band. The pendant of the band is a
> golden dragon, an affectation of hers. Soft red slippers complete it."
>
>
> ...and what I can do is sort that into a different "folder"
> (your mail program may vary, but almost all of them can
> do sorting) so when I decide Fiona's cutting her clothes off
> in an orgiastic frenzy of hermetic magic, I know what colour
> scraps will be left on Julian's floor. Of course, if it's
> day two, I'll have to search for that.
>
> Just an example.
>
>
> The configurator was pretty simple.
>
> TOPIC is what you want to name your sublist.
> Make this short because when you send messages, you'll
> be sending it to YOURLIST+TOPIC ...at phoenyx.net
> (presumably.)
>
> While I originally had it at "OOC_List" I just made
> it "OOC" once I understood. And instead of making
> people send messages to "glitglam+descriptions@phoenyx.net"
> I titled the other "Fashion."
>
> TOPIC TAG is what is going to be added to the message subject.
> So you want to probably add something related to your
> list in it. The Glitter and the Glamour goes to "GnG"
> already, so now it's "GnG-OOC" and "GnG-Fashion".
>
> TOPIC DESCRIPTION is fairly obvious; it's the "info" on
> the list.
>
> READERSHIP is tricky because when you're making the subtopic
> it asks, "everyone, no one, or example". Example is (I think)
> when you duplicate an existing topic (I can only come up
> with a reason or two why). Otherwise, do you add "everyone"
> or "no one" (set for "opt in" or add everyone, basically.)
>
> I did this wrong; OOC should have been "opt in" and Fashion should
> have been by default (since it's in-game versus out-of-game.)
>
> THEN, when you've "ADD"ed your subtopic, it changes to "default
> Y/N?" which is, when you join the group do you get added by
> default, versus your current subscribers in the first question.
>
> TOPIC MODERATION is basically how is it being moderated. If
> you make a subgroup for "announcements" you might want to moderate
> the posts.
>
> One of the neat things the help page says is if you want all
> group traffic to happen within subtopics, you can set that
> up as well. This is what I want to do with "Bluebeard's Wives:"
> each person would be running the Bluebeard game with a subtopic
> of, say, "Joe" for their character name. So they would send
> mail to "Bluebeard+Joe" and I'd modify all this for that...
>
> There's lots of other good advice in the file. I basically
> very liberally cut-and-pasted from the help files into a main
> message for the Glitter and the Glamour group, and I intend on
> building an abbreviated version into the FAQ function (which
> is another neat ability here...wheeeee!)
>
> My message, if you're interested, is at:
> http://www.phoenyx.net/glitglam/2001/08/msg00012.html
>
> I hope that helps. Heck, I hope it was accurate, but
> that's how it SEEMS to work.
>
> \\ Mb \\
> mabarry@xpert.net
>
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