Subscriber List Definition

To access the subscriber list definition wizard, open the subscriber list overview of the desired list. Then select Open List Definition from the menu (or go via the right-click menu of the list node in the subscriber warehouse tree).
To create a new standalone subscriber list, select New Subscriber List... from the menu (or go via the right-click menu of the Subscriber Lists node in the subscriber warehouse tree).
To create a new subscriber list in an existing list group, first select the desired list group node. Then select New In List Group Subscriber List... from the menu (or go via the right-click menu of the list group node in the subscriber warehouse tree).

The Subscriber List wizard lets you define the settings of a subscriber list or edit an existing list.

Note: A subscriber list is only fully editable while it is "empty", meaning that there are no subscribers on the list. For a non-empty list, only certain settings are editable.

For a Hybrid Subscriber List (which augments the features of a standard subscriber list with the advanced features of a LISTSERV list, covering advanced use cases such as email discussions groups), the wizard has eight pages:

General, List Type, List Options, Posting Restrictions, Topics, Profile Fields, Profile Field Details, and Summary

The top row of the wizard displays links to these pages. The page that is currently open is highlighted. Depending on the choices made on some of the wizard pages, other pages may become disabled or may be shown in different versions. If a wizard page is disabled, then it means that this page is not necessary with the current choices and can safely be ignored.

Topics Page: Define LISTSERV List Topics

Note: This screen is disabled for a subscriber list in standard announcement mode and is not visible at all if the LISTSERV Maestro administrator has disabled Hybrid Subscriber Lists for the account or group.

The screen defines any list topics for the LISTSERV list. List topics are a special concept of LISTSERV lists. Please see the LISTSERV manuals for details.

You may optionally specify up to 23 different LISTSERV list topics. To define a new topic, click the New Topic link and fill out the empty topic row that appears. In the list, topics are displayed in the display mode or in the editable mode. In the display mode, each topic has an associated Edit link to set it into the editable mode. In the editable mode, each topic has the Reset (forget changes and resets the topic to the state it had when the editable mode was last entered), Up (moves the topic up one step in the topics list), Down (moves the topic down ones step in the topics list), and Remove (removes the topic) associated with it.

When adding new topics to a list that already has subscribers, an additional option, Existing subscribers will have the new topics selected automatically, will be given. Check this option if the new topics being created are to be automatically added to existing subscribers' topics. Any subscribers added to the list after the topics change is submitted will be able to make their own choice about adding the new topics or not. This option applies to all topics that are created on this screen in the same list wizard session. If several topics are to be created, with some of them automatically being selected for existing subscribers and some of them not, then this must be done so by repeatedly entering the list wizard. First add one topic, check the option, then finish the wizard. Next, re-enter the wizard, and add the second topic but leave the option unchecked. Finally, finish the wizard again.