I have a question for Postmasters/Listserv Maintainers at University instituions, and I would appreciate the time you take to read and reply with thoughts. Let me start off by saying that I am biased, and that is why I'm posting this because I want to be fair....and open to new Listserv experiences...and this could be more of a mistake that I would like to admit if you don't agree with me. :-) On to the question. There is a trend here, that is, attempting to deal with increased requsts from students on campus. When our eyes were closed, they started up their own www server. This can be a good thing if it is a secure version of the httpd code....so we looked at who was using it and were suprised to find a number of faculty and staff who had constructed their own www personal home pages, etc. The powers that be were therefore reluctant to kill the daemon...but try to enter into an agreement with students for services that they wanted that we were not providing. There is now a student committee...and we have agreed to provide them with a unix box for their services, IRC, games, Zmodem, www personal pages, etc. Now they have discovered Listserv...sigh. A few students have said, I want my own Listserv list. I haven't been approached seriously yet, but it will happen any day now. My position is that Listserv Lists on campus are for the academic community, not for individual use for presenting one's habits, providing recreation, or a forum for indivdual tastes, etc., I think they can do that on usenet. :-) Listserv currently runs on a machine that probably can't take a lot more stress...but that aside, what are your thoughts on this issue and have you had such requests at your institution from students and what arguments do you use against the trival use of listserv...I could use some about now. :-) Ah! There is my bias showing. I should also point out that we have a student Listowner, but this person runs an internationally popular list related to academia... I have no problem with this. Your insight/policy statements in this manner are much appreciated! Cheers! --Trish ---- Trish Forrest, Computing Services, University of Windsor [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask]