Changing Your Mail Distribution Topics for DairyNew
			Mark Varner (revised 6/15/99)

DairyNew is an electronic information exchange network for newsletters 
and other periodic publications pertaining to dairy production. You can 
receive all contributions or you can just receive those that contain 
information pertaining to a specific topic. Some newsletters might 
contain information pertaining to more than one topic, so you might get 
something more than just what you had wanted.

When you subscribe to DairyNew, you automatically get all topics by
default. You can set your topics to whatever you want, and you can delete
or add topics as you wish. A list of possible topics is in Table 1 below. 
Three examples of changing topics are presented.

Table 1. DairyNew topics and a general description of the area.
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Listserv Topic          General Area
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vet                     Veterinary Medicine
breed                   Reproductive Management
feed                    Nutrition and Feeding
mastitis                Mastitis and Milking Management
econ                    Economics and Dairy Farm Finbrances
eng                     Facilities and other Dairy Farm Engineering Areas
young                   Replacement Heifers and Calves
genetic                 Genetics
grazing                 Grazing and Pastures
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Example of going from receiving all topics to receiving only two
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Let's take an example of where you only want to get information concerning
feed and youngstock. To change from getting all topics to just getting
newsletters pertaining to feed and youngstock, send an e-mail message to: 

listserv@umdd.umd.edu

Put the following line in the body of the message:

set DairyNew Topics: feed young

You have just replaced the default setting of all for topics to feed and
young. You would modify the set DairyNew Topics: line to include the
topics you wanted to the right of the colon. You would choose from the
DairyNew Topic list in Table 1. Choose only the words in the _LEFT HAND_
column for the topics you want. A description of what each topic entails
is in the right hand column of Table 1. 

This example describes replacing the DairyNew default topic list (all 
topics) with a more selective list

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Example of adding a DairyNew topic
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Let's take the example of where you wanted to get information concerning
feed and youngstock. Now you'd like to start getting grazing information
too. To add grazing newsletters to feed and youngstock, send an e-mail
message to: 

listserv@umdd.umd.edu

Put the following line in the body of the message:

set DairyNew Topics: +grazing

You have just added the topic grazing to feed and young. In general, you
would modify the set DairyNew Topics: line to include the topics you
wanted to add to the right of the colon and preceed each topic with a +
sign.  You would choose from the DairyNew Topic list in Table 1. Choose
only the words in the _LEFT HAND_ column for the topics you want. A
description of what each topic entails is in the right hand column of
Table 1.

You can add more than one topic at a time. An example of adding grazing 
and veterinary information is below:

set DairyNew Topics: +grazing +vet

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Example of deleting a DairyNew topic
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Let's take the example of where you wanted to get information concerning
feed, youngstock and grazing. Now you'd like to stop getting young
information. To delete youngstock newsletters, send an e-mail message to: 

listserv@umdd.umd.edu

Put the following line in the body of the message:

set DairyNew Topics: -young

You have just deleted the topic young. In general, you would modify the
set DairyNew Topics: line to include the topics you wanted to delete to
the right of the colon and preceed each topic with a - sign. You would
choose from the DairyNew Topic list in Table 1. Choose only the words in
the _LEFT HAND_ column for the topics you want. A description of what each
topic entails is in the right hand column of Table 1. 

More than one topic can be deleted at a time. To delete young and 
feed, you would use the following command:

set DairyNew topics: -young -feed