Who may own a listserv?
Our contract with LISTSERV limits its use to educational, instructional, and administrative use — frivolous lists are not supported. Students wishing to manage lists must be sponsored by a faculty or staff member acting as ‘co-owner’ (sponsor) of the list; this “quiet” owner is not subscribed to the list and will not receive messages sent to the list or monitoring/error reports from LISTSERV related to the list. The sponsor provides us with an additional contact in case of problems with the list. The name and email address of the faculty/staff sponsor must be included in the request for a student-owned list. We do not support lists managed solely by individuals external to USC. As a University resource, use of LISTSERV is governed by computer and communications policies of the University. Guidelines for student use and official University policies are accessible from the web at http://www.sc.edu/OIT/ under the Policies link.
