Hi everyone, I'm a listowner too (not this list... another for an artist and his fans) and it's true that our function is just to do a lot of button-pushing, taking care of messages which are 'bounced' & non-member correspondence, dead email addresses and so on... also on those unpleasant (thankfully rare!!) occasions to enforce some matter of list policy or just plain, decent manners. But, it's also true that once I was asked to be the list's owner, having been a member for years, the membership at large started treating me... differently. Everything I said on the list carried more weight, even lighthearted comments. If I'd said the same things as another member of the list, it would have been seen in a much more casual light. I have never felt very comfortable in this role because for one thing, I don't like undue attention. For another I don't like being accused of things like being a fascist dictator because I'm asking someone to please be respectful of another member's privacy. That sort of thing. Being a list owner is definitley a drag sometimes and it has to be a labor of love, or else it isn't worth it. I'm sorry to see the management of FLUXLIST getting discouraged lately but I do understand. xxx Robin
