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- From: "George D. Greenwade" <bed_gdg@SHSU.BITNET>
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.mail.mx
- Subject: RE: help!!! list serrver
- Message-ID: <0095DF2F.1FE5D260.29056@SHSU.edu>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 10:08:21 CDT
- Organization: Mx-List<==>Vmsnet.Mail.Mx Gateway
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- On Wed, 22 Jul 1992 02:59:44 EDT, Matt (The Midnight Mortician) Harttree
- <harttree@vax1.elon.edu> posted:
- > Is there a better listserver program around with more features than the one
- > currently in use by MX. As much as I like Mx the listserver program leaves
- > me green with envy for the Listserv program for internet. Is there a port
- > of this available by FTP for CMU/TEK??? I would like something that is
- > easy to administrate and has a better set of commands.
-
- If you mean Eric Thomas' VM/CMS based LISTSERV, no. If you mean the
- listserv sets run on Unix machines which have been posted to various
- newsgroups on Usenet, no. If I am wrong on this, someone please correct
- me!! Among the three, Eric's LISTSERV is (quite possibly) the best (known,
- certainly, if not in features and functionality, as well), although the
- features added by Matt Madison in the latest iterations of MX, when
- combined with the file server capabilities come very close. From reports I
- have seen (no I haven't loaded it and actually test driven it -- yet), the
- Unix-based nice tries at listserv are just that -- nice tries; however, I
- know they are making progress.
-
- Question (to give food for thought in development): What specific aspects
- of "easy to administrate and ... better set of commands" might you be
- looking for? I believe that Hunter would have an interest in this as he
- and I have exchanged some ideas for future development in the MLF
- processor. Which leads to:
-
- > P.S. Is Matt Madison still alive?? (address at rpi is returned to me- I
- > have old manuals!!!) I owe him a public thanks for creating Mx and Watcher
- > and etc... Our vax is slowly becoming a beachfront for his warez!
-
- Matt has moved on to different (if not greener or more pleasantly climatic)
- pastures. He is now associated with TGV -- the MultiNet folks of VMS
- TCP/IP fame and fortune. His address is now <madison@TGV.com>. Matt
- turned over MX development and maintenance to the very competent hands of
- Hunter Goatley <goathunter@WKUVX1.BITNET>, who now receives all of the mail
- with development suggestions from me which previously went to Matt.
-
- Regards, George
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