If you are a LISTSERV maintainer (ie, your address appears in the POSTMASTER= site configuration variable), you are de facto an owner of every list on the server without needing to be explicitly set as such in any list header.  You can do anything a list owner can do, plus.

Nathan

At 07:33 PM 5/31/2007 -0400, Tim Casten wrote:
>On Thursday, May 31, 2007 at 7:24:36 PM you wrote:
>> Why not just use one of the listserv maintainers since they are site-wide list "owners?"
>
>they are not site wide list owners we run about 200 lists on our server and they all have different owners.
>my mistake i should have put my listadmin account as an owner with the original owner when i created the lists, now i wish i had and hate the thought of going thru 200 lists and adding that address to each lists owners list.
>
>Can you explain more on the listserv maintainers
>
>--  
>Tim