>
> So the first thing I did was to fire up site.exe and change
> the postmaster
> to my email address and change the password.
>

Make sure your email address is the first one that is shown.  There can be a
few in the list (for redundancy) but the first one is considered G.O.D.  By
default, the primary site maintainer is default owner for all lists (someone
please correct me if I'm wrong) and should thus be granted all owner
privileges.

>
> So, being a bit of a hacker (NOT Cracker) I had a look in the
> .LIST file
> for the list in question and edited the owner portion of it
> so that it was
> my email address instead of my predecessor.
>

You should never edit the .LIST files by hand, especially in Windows.
They're stored in a special file format that can be corrupted easily which
explains the error you're seeing.  The correct way of editing a list header
is to GET it, make your changes, then PUT it.  Otherwise use the web
interface.

If you haven't already, I strongly suggest you get a copy of the Site
Manager's manual at ftp://ftp.lsoft.com/DOCUMENTS/sitemgr.pdf and the
Owner's Manual at ftp://ftp.lsoft.com/DOCUMENTS/owner.pdf.  They overlap a
lot on the Owner's functions but it's useful to have both.

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