Toru Saito asks:
> In our organization, the web development unit and the
> customer service unit are responsible for administering the LISTSERV. 
> ...  1. Who(which unit) are the administrators of the LISTSERV in your
organization?

Office of Chief Info Officer
    IT Services 
	Web division (web development & administration)

> 2. Does it work well? (If not why)

Yeah!  No complaints, lots of users, great product, no headaches! 

> 3. Why you decided to do that way?  

Years ago (before web), we were Rsch & Dev. computer  programmers 
& had full run/control of all systems.   When the shop was small, we 
also did networking, dns and email. Those became their own divisions.  

We have been organized, re-, un-, dis-, and organized again;
upsized, downsized and rightsized... 

Then some programmers chose client, others chose server.
Guess which side of the fence I landed on.    (-; >  

So you could say we leftsized (a new word with the suggested meaning 
that we became specialists instead of generalists).  

I've been responsible for Listserv here since the Bitnet days and am
perfectly 
happy to keep it so; also manage the public ftp server, Institutional
domain 
names, the intranet and parts of the public website.   

Mignon Erixon-Stanford, Internet Coordinator 
Smithsonian Institution
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