On Wed, 20 Jan 1993 07:00:00 EST Peter M. Weiss +1 814 863 1843 said: >Do you require the soon-to-be list-owner to do a LISTS OF LISTS (cf. >LISTSOF LISTS at ndsuvm1) search to see if there are already >established lists (either LISTSERV-based or other-server based) that >might already fulfill the stated purpose? We don't require them to do their own search, per se. I talk to them about it and look for similar lists myself if I think there might by a conflict. So far I don't think it's been a problem and many of our lists are of a very audience (e.g. until recently we had a list for Chilean Nueroscientists). >Once established, do you encourage them to post to NEW-LIST (I've >searched NEW-LIST and at least one person at CUNYVM does so). Yes. Most choose not to, however, planning to do it later when they are sure they can handle the load. I think most forget. Bill