> I am curious if all of you who are LISTSERV administrators actually create all the new lists for your site. I am the List Admin for our site, and so far I have always been the one to create new lists. But there is some sentiment here that this is a
>  low-level task that could be relegated to a clerical position or, possibly, automated. So I'd just like to get some feedback on how this is handled at other LISTSERV sites, and the pros and cons of letting someone other than the List Admin create new
>  lists. Thanks.

We also have a web site that our users use to create a list.  It asks a
number of questions, some of which vary according to the answers to
earlier questions.  It generates the list header, which is then emailed
to us for approval.  If the list is appropriate, we forward it on to a
special mailbox, which causes the list to be created in LISTSERV, the
necessary sendmail aliases to be defined, and the necessary directories
to be created.  So it only takes a minute of our time.