Each mailing list has a single point of contact, the owner, who is responsible for the non-technical aspects of creating and maintaining the list. If one's organization has a MCHB grant the Institute for Child Health Policy through the MCH-NetLink grant can immediately setup a mailing list. The owner is responsible for promoting the mailing list. This includes providing instructions on how to subscribe. The most frequent, and possibly only, ongoing task the owner will be required to do is to unsubscribe invalid email addresses.
People often forget to unsubscribe to mailing lists when they change email addresses.
It is good etiquette to send an e-mail to those who are denied explaining why they were denied. One will want to carefully use this feature, i.e., make sure the recipient appreciates being added. One must follow the following instructions in order to resend an approved posting to the list. Save the bounced message in a file. The file should begin with the original message's headers followed by the body.