>All listowners are paid, one way or another. The ones who don't think >the pay is adequate quit (shut down the list, hand it over to someone >else, abandon it (orphan lists) . . . But, yes, Mary, some people are >paid cash money to be listowners (of course they often also have to be >host site administrators and I am sure the better ones are worth what >they are paid). They don't get to pick the lists they work on, though, >and, personally, no one could pay me enough to run my lists. Douglas Excellent point, Doug, although sometimes I think running a list I didn't care about might be easier. Since my only pay is the satisfaction of seeing it work well, there is a lot of emotion tied up in it. There wouldn't be the emotional involvement in a list that I was running for someone else. But...when I think of having to read all those messages to check for flames, I don't want to do it. I wouldn't mind being technical help for new list owners though. Mary