Owners

What does owning a list involve?

This very much depends on the options you chose for your list. You can have a list which will almost run itself or you can have a list which gives you total control. If you follow the recommendations below you will have a list which balances security and workload.

Whatever options you choose, you must be prepared to dedicate some time to it. The points below will give you an idea of some of the issues you may have to deal with. All of these tasks can be carried out via e-mail.

- Requests for subscription to your list may have to be confirmed.

- Addresses which repeatedly refuse delivery will be notified to the list owner, who should try to have the problem corrected or remove the offending e-mail address from the list.

- You may find the need to modify some of the list parameters, which involves requesting LISTSERV to send you the list header, modifying the keyword parameters, adding the list password and sending the header back to LISTSERV.

- Occasionally some subscribers will embark on a topic which is not within the scope of your list. If this is annoying other subscribers they may expect you to put a stop to it.