listmaster

Noun

listmaster (plural listmasters)

1. (Internet) 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 longer exists. You'll definitely want to remove this user from the list.1996, Dee-Ann LeBlanc, Running a Perfect Internet Site With Linux, Indianapolis, I.N.: Que, →ISBN, page 272
   • 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
2. (historical) 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 History of Ulster County, New York, volume 1, page 362
   • 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 York, page 91