On 10/8/2004 8:50 AM, Pete Weiss wrote:

> Though I'm not sure that it has been used in a meaningful way when a peer
> list of owners and subscribers are involved, I had once thought that a
> list definition (let's call it "B") that had some keywords such as:
>
> OWNER= primary_owner,(B)
> REPLY-TO= LIST,RESPECT
> NOTEBOOK= ...PRIVATE...
>
> would be extremely useful if a subscriber was unavailable, anyone on the
> list could turn off (or on) the other's options.

As the local site administrator, I own a list with a configuration that
includes a statement granting ownership privileges to list subscribers,
as in Pete's example above. When a list owner needs a place to "play"
with various list configuration options, either as a learning exercise
or to test potential changes for an existing list, I instruct that
individual to subscribe to my "list owner's playground" list. After I
approve the subscription request, the new subscriber can make changes to
the list configuration and test the impact without affecting the operation
of a "real" list. When he/she is done testing, he/she can simply signoff.

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Paul Russell
Senior Systems Administrator
OIT Messaging Services Team
University of Notre Dame