I tend to agree that this WOULD be a useful feature. I can't assess it's priority with other potential upgrades. We are new to LISTSERV and are migrating from cc:Mail to WEB based mail. We have approx. 2500 mailing lists that are based on a "home grown" cc:Mail dependent system. Only one list owner per list. In addition we have at least another 500 or more cc:Mail "public - office dependent" mailing lists to convert. We have found many instances where multiple list owners, for subscription purposes would be really handy. Keith Paquin Watson Wyatt & Company "[log in to unmask] (LISTSERV give-and-take forum)" wrote: > > Hello all, > I was expressing today to Lsoft's support personnel my need to have > what may be called a 'Second-Level' List Owner. > My idea was to have a second type of List Owner, one that can't change the > List Headers but can do things like adding, deleting, changing parameters etc. > for list members, Error handling and the like. They would have the GET and PUT > commands not available to them. > For me it will serve a situation where I need to open many lists (around the > 1000 figure) for academic courses and I know List owners won't be the kind of > people who would care too much, or have the time to get themselves knowledgeable > about changing the list header. If they do, it could be all wrong. Also, this > would help to split the maintenance work around a list between few people > without the risk that they change the header file. > I can think of other benefits to other List owners and site > administrators alike. > > The response I got was that this is probably a needless feature. > > I would like to challenge this approach because I believe this is a feature > that can be put to use by some/many of us. > > So... I built two lists: YES-L and NO-L, both at tx.technion.ac.il and if you > just post a message to any of these lists (no need to subscribe before) > with the subject 'Yes | No to Secondary List owner' we can count the 'votes' > and see then if it is indeed a needed/not needed feature. > To make this a quick vote, please just send to the 'right' list and NOT > to this list or to Lsoft people, please ! > > All you have to do is send your mail with the subject as above to > [log in to unmask] > or to [log in to unmask] according to what you think about this feature. > > YES-L is voting for the idea of a Secondary List owner, NO-L objects it. > > Both lists have a WWW interface that can be used (and results of the vote > inspected there by simply counting the number of messages on each list) > at http://tx.technion.ac.il/archives/yes-l.html (and no-l.html) > > For practical reasons this survey should end on August 31. > > Your help and participation are appreciated !!!! > > Thanks, > > Moshe