>Ok, thanks. Here's what I understand: >I am the current listowner, so I have authority to go in and add a new email address to the OWNER= field. We give it some transition time, making sure the new person can successfully do all the management functions, and then the new person removes me from the OWNER= field and is now the sole listowner. >Do I have this right? Or you can remove yourself; in that case, you'll lose owner authority AFTER the change takes effect. I routinely change the throwaway address I use to manage my lists, so I know this. On the other hand, just to avoid stupid copy errors, I should probably be using a transition overlap scheme like yours, even if both owner-addresses are mine. Hal Keen