listmaster

Noun

1. A person responsible for operating a listserv.
   • If an account subscribed to your mailing list ceases to exist, you'll get e-mail to the listmaster for that specific mailing list after every single post that goes out to the list, telling you that particular account no...
   • The script will first ask you to submit an address for the list server's administrator, or "listmaster." - 1998, Tom Dell, AppleShare IP, page 316:
   • Some of the above are 'virtual collegaues', members of the Victoria 19th-Century British Culture & Society mailbase, and I would once again like to record my thanks both to the listmembers and to Patrick Leary, who as...

   Coordinate Terms: listmember

2. A village bureaucrat responsible for maintaining lists such as census, inventory of village assets, etc, and sometimes for overseeing public distributions.
   • The reports were as follows: John Christopher Gerlach, listmaster of Elizabeth Town, reported the inhabitants to be forty-two families, — one hundred and forty-six persons; […] - 2001, Alphonso Trumpbour Clearwater, The...
   • Two of the seven listmasters had been soldiers in Europe. Johann Conrad Weiser had served as a corporal in the Württemberg Blue Dragoons. - 2006, Philip Otterness, Becoming German: The 1709 Palatine Migration to New...
   • One of the ladies said, “Herr Conrad Weiser is a good listmaster for us. He used to be a corporal in the military, you know. Very smart man.” - 2017, Cara Dunkelberger, Magdalena: A Colonial Girl’s Epic Journey: