People may get the wrong idea if the following isn't said. I didn't want people to think Jon just dumped the previous list and walked away.

Jon Freeman had set up an active list which had 17 members. Then Jon left Mudcat. Jon told me he'd tried to transfer ownership over to Alison, but had problems with Microsoft error messages and couldn't get anywhere. He asked for my help, as he had previously made me a list administrator. I had the same problems as he did. He has since figured out the problem, but it doesn't matter since there's a whole new list.