> "owners" as much as caretakers. But we need to find a happy medium between a
> democracy and dictatorship. A benevolent dictatorship.
> --
> Walter Potter

Well, of course.  All the well run lists I am familiar with are the last.
They will stay that way as long as there is a good listowner, and there
are listowners an listpowerabusers, which means one is very careful in
ones choices if one has to turn over list ownership to another.  Douglas