I have tried to gather people's comments and my understanding of your needs and here is a proposal that I think stands on its own (that is, I would like to NOT refer to previous discussions). 1. The list owner will be: sues@umich.edu (Sue Schuon) I (or Sue) could add other silent list owners (same privileges, less mail from LISTSERV) 2. There will be a general information alias: chi-dis-information ACM SIGCHI Designing Interactive Systems Conference Information DIS-interest@xerox.com will point to it 3. I do not think you want to create lists with names that do not reflect who gets the mail. It appears that you want this hierarchy: chi-DIS-All-Comm ... All Committee Members chi-DIS-Org-Comm Conference Organizing Committee chi-DIS-Prog-Comm Program Committee From the www.acm.org/sigchi/dis97/ page, it seems clear that the Organizing Committee and the Program Committee are not the same, although everyone on the Org Comm might be on the Prog Comm. LISTSERV allows a hierarchy of lists so that the definition of chi-Dis-All-Comm would be: Sub-Lists= chi-DIS-Org-Comm,chi-DIS-Prog-Comm and LISTSERV would send mail to -All-Comm to both lists, (pruning out duplicates, you'll be happy to know). Sending mail to org-comm and prog-comm WOULD cause duplicates. This setup will allow more future flexibility than a list like: chi-dis-OrgProg-Comm because you can add new sublists to All-Comm later. Forwarding Pointers: DIS-core@xerox.com -> chi-DIS-Org-Comm DIS-prog@xerox.com -> chi-DIS-Prog-Comm 4. If DIS will always be a CHI (and only a CHI) conference, then using a CHI- prefix might be a good idea. Otherwise, you might consider NOT using a chi-prefix. The main difference is that the DIS lists would not appear near the CHI lists when someone browses the lists at ACM. My feeling is that you might regret the CHI- prefix later, and that you would not care about being listed with the other CHI lists, so your lists would be: DIS-Information DIS-Org-Comm DIS-Prog-Comm DIS-All-Comm (The hardest thing to change is a list name, so you want to get this right the first time.)