This service provides an extremely convienent means for the exchange of ideas and information between members. Listserv servers can also log mail traffic, store all the messages associated with their lists, and carry out database searches of archives and files. Most discussions are open to the entire campus community. Peter Anteater A private list is a list that only subscribers can send mail postings and to which an individual can be added only with the approval of the owner of the list. To subscribe to such a list, one needs to send a request to the owner of the list or to the lis t itself.
Every list has a primary owner and can have secondary owners, as well.
An owner of a list can add and remove subscribers from the list and edit the welcome and info messages from the list.