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- The scripts in this archive comprise a simple to use mailing listserv that uses
- Marcel Beck's YAM mail software to send/receive. To use simply create an assign
- for ListServ:(I suggest YAM:rexx) place all the files in this archive there,
- edit the welcome,bye and help files to reflect the topic of YOUR list.
- Run YAM, once you receive msgs with YAM run listserv.rexx and it will
- automatically add folks to the list, remove them, send them a
- help file, send them a list of users or post messages to the subscribers.
- Of course you could use each script seperately as well.
-
- New Author's Addendum:
-
- In the previous release of listserv package all the scripts were
- seperate; I found this a bit annoying and also had problems with it running as
- is; therefore I combined them into 1 large script which means faster execution
- of script. I fixed all of the bugs the original author had and added a few new
- routines to make the script more solid.
- Features you will find enjoyable are no bounce and no infinite mail
- loop. What that means is that user will not be sent his message back to him,
- after all the user should know what they have written (no bounce) and in the
- event there is message from you (the admin) in your incoming folder it won't
- get processed since when you receive the message it'll just get processed again
- and again (the infinite loop), therefore no processing of messages from the
- admin (no loop). However, to that end, I have created the script mail2users.rexx
- which allows you to write a letter(s) to all of your subscribed users.
-
- USAGE FOR [MAIL2USERS.REXX]:
-
- Write a message to anyone, that person won't get sent a message as this
- is for dummy purposes only, and send it to queue versus sending now. Then run
- mail2users.rexx which will look in the outgoing folder and copy said messages
- to all of the subscribed users.
-
- I'll make the routine more efficient in the future as time goes on.
- Or rather more feature laden.
-
- My additional suggestions for setting up the listserv:
-
- In addition to running this listserv you may decide to run a fileserver
- as well, what I suggest you do for that is to get YAMSERV from aminet and
- install it per it's instructions. It is well thought out and works well with
- this script package.
- Now edit your .config file and add the following lines to the
- bottom of it.
-
- RexxMenu0 = listserv.rexx
- RexxMenu1 = mail2users.rexx
-
- if there is already a REXXMENU entry you will have to increment the 0 and 1
- accordingly.
- After doing the above, reload the config file or just restart yam
- (your choice). You will then notice that you can active the scripts from the
- last menu on the menu bar.
-
- Back to original author's notes:
-
- Read the help and welcome textfiles to see how to use the list(EASY as PIE!)
- hope you enjoy it folks
-
-
- Original author:
- Pete
- midgard@nycmetro.com
- http://nycmetro.com/midgard
-
- NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE
-
- The original author is no longer an Amiga User and has passed the torch
- on to me.
-
- New author:
- Roger --- My Name
- Dude3k --- My IRC nick on galaxynet.org
- rlamb@lcc.net --- My email address
- http://www.lcc.net/~rlamb --- My web page that I have done nothing with
-
- MORE NOTES MORE NOTES MORE NOTES MORE NOTES
-
- I am also part of a new group called BYTES IN PROGRESS; Our main purpose is to
- help distribute new shareware created by our members and to produce new demos
- and intros.
-
- MORE INFO ON ME
-
- I am the creator of these fine maxs bbs doors:
-
- LAND OF VEX
- HAIKU
- ANSI INVADERS
-
- and the creator of this fine AmIRC script:
-
- Remote Cli Server --- on it's way to becoming and EGGDROP clone.
-
- and now the torch carrier of:
-
- Listserv for the amiga and yam.
-