listmasterとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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listmaster (複数形 listmasters)

1. (Internet) A person responsible for operating a listserv.

   Coordinate term: listmember

   • 1996, Dee-Ann LeBlanc, Running a Perfect Internet Site With Linux, Indianapolis, I.N.: Que, →ISBN, page 272:

     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.

   • 1998, Tom Dell, AppleShare IP, page 316:

     The script will first ask you to submit an address for the list server's administrator, or "listmaster."

   • 2011, Judith Flanders, The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime, London: HarperPress, →ISBN, pages 467–468:

     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 listmaster creates and maintains both the content and the atmosphere of this haven of scholarly collegiality.

2. (historical) A village bureaucrat responsible for maintaining lists such as census, inventory of village assets, etc, and sometimes for overseeing public distributions.
   • 2001, Alphonso Trumpbour Clearwater, The History of Ulster County, New York (volume 1, page 362)

     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; […]

   • 2006, Philip Otterness, Becoming German: The 1709 Palatine Migration to New York (page 91)

     Two of the seven listmasters had been soldiers in Europe. Johann Conrad Weiser had served as a corporal in the Württemberg Blue Dragoons.

   • 2017, Cara Dunkelberger, Magdalena: A Colonial Girl’s Epic Journey:

     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.”

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