CITES Listserv Ownership Transfer Procedure

This page contains information for members of registered student organizations (also known as RSOs or ROs) to use to transfer ownership of a mailing list from one set of officers to another.

Currently the Registered Student Organization office paperwork changes ownership only of RSO web pages and does not automatically transfer ownership of Listerv lists. It is the duty of the previous officers to grant access to the new officers. This can be done via email or the Listserv web interface.

If any previous officer with list ownership permissions is available, please ask them to edit the list configuration to make you the new owner. If no current owner is reachable for the list, please contact a Listserv manager at listmgr@illinois.edu to make the changes for you, and then remember to add the new president when your term is over. This is the procedure for an existing owner to add or change owners. One should take great care not to change other keywords, or make typographical errors in a list header.

The main list management URL on our campus is: http://listserv.illinois.edu/wa?LMGT1

Enter your listname in the List Name: box and click the Configuration tab. If you've not used this interface before, you'll see links to create a Listserv password. If you have a password, enter it where prompted and then you'll be at the Edit list header page for your list. Find the section with Owner keywords like the following:

OWNER=president's-netid@illinois.edu

OWNER=QUIET:

OWNER=treasurer's-netid@illinois.edu

OWNER=vp's-netid@illinois.edu

The main owner who will respond to list requests and bounce messages should be above the quiet line. Those that need to be able to add/remove subscribers etc. but don't handle normal mail, should be below. Add or edit the entries in the text box so that everyone who needs to control the list can. Any owner can then add/remove other owners. You must have at least one non-quiet owner.

If you have any doubts about how to modify this header, please drop by the Help Desk in 1211 DCL where a consultant would be happy to assist you.

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