List Owners & Moderators FAQ

Create a backup Owner address

I urge all listowners to please to establish a second email address for the groups you own/moderate. However you wish to do this, such as using Yahoo Mail, or Hotmail, or any web-based server that offers free email addresses, it would be a good idea to sign up for one.

Then go to Yahoo and obtain a separate Yahoo ID and password for that email address. (This will be a secondary Yahoo ID). Then, once you have that new Yahoo ID and password, go to the URL for your group(s) and subscribe. You may set that secondary subscription for web only (No mail). Think of this as a safety net for your protection.

If, at any time in the future, something happens to your regular email address as "list owner," you want to be able to access your groups to manage them during the period while you're attempting to restore your first email addy.

After that new email address has been subscribed to your group, sign in with your regular email address (the one you use as list owner), then go to the membership listing to find that second email address you established. Click on the word "edit" for that address. When *that* page opens, click "make Owner".

From this secondary address, you would have the capability of "restoring" privileges for the bouncing first address. You would not be locked out as list owner just because your ISP had temporary trouble of one kind or another and was bouncing.

Thanks to Barbara D. for posting this tip to EL-M.