At 18:43 10/13/1999 Wednesday , John Lyon wrote:

 >When Listserv sees inbound mail addressed to owner-listname@  it sents it
 >to the owner of that list as a probable bounce/error.

This is not strictly accurate: LISTSERV redirects the mail as specified
in the list's keyword

* ERRORS-TO=

Now that might very well default to OWNERS, but it can be explicitly sent
to any valid RFC822 address, regardless of that address's relationship to
list-owners or subscribers.