On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Uzi Paz wrote:
> I consider it as a real bug. The bug is simply the default name for the
> return path.
> owner-<listname> is a very bad and misleading name for the return path.
> It is natually misleading people to think that it is the address of the
> list-owner.

As long as I have had anything to do with listserv lists owner-listname@
has been reserved for error messages, just as  listserv@  is reserved
for commands.  As long as the users are informed I don't see that it
is confusing; I have certainly never told any subscriber to send either
list postings, commands or for that matter questions about subscription
problems to owner-listname@

I do not see it as any more confusing than telling them that listserv@
is for commands only, the list name is for posting items to the list,
never commands, and listname-request@ is for contacting a listowner if
one has a subscription problem and can't recall the owner's address.

What I do see as confusing is that other MLMs use the same form of
userid's to mean something other that what they mean in LISTSERV.  That
can be
really confusing.

Douglas