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- From: wsm0@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (Wayne S. Mery)
- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
- Subject: Re: where is VSE-L?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.045557.36116@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 04:55:57 GMT
- Organization: Lehigh University
- Lines: 33
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- In article <IBM-MAIN%92111703411253@RICEVM1.RICE.EDU>, LDW@USCMVSA.BITNET (Leona
- rd D Woren) writes:
- >On Tue, 17 Nov 1992 00:17:40 EST,
- > "Wayne S. Mery" <wsm0@LEHIGH.EDU> said:
- >> ...
- >> To subscribe to DOSVSE-L send mail (you cannot use 'TELL') to:
- >> listserv@lehigh.edu
- >> with the command line:
- >> sub DOSVSE-L your-name
- >
- >Note that the "thing" running as listserv@lehigh.edu has virtually
- >nothing in common with Eric Thomas' LISTSERV that most us know and
- >love (well, know, anyway), except a ripoff of the name. Some of the
- >commands that you're used to using with LISTSERV may accidentally work
- >with that other thing, but that's accidental.
- >
- >/Leonard
- >
- This is partly correct.
-
- True, this listserv has nothing to do with Eric's very functional
- listserv. However, you will find the key commands for unix listservs, like
- sub, unsub help, review and others, work much the same which is no accident.
- For the convenience of the user, some effort has
- been made by the listserv developer (whoever that is) to provide some
- decent compatibility. There are apparently many unix based listservs
- springing up. So if your favorite LISTSERV command doesn't work when you send
- it to anything called listserv@... you can bet it's on a unix system.
-
- --
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- Wayne S. Mery Systems Programmer Lehigh University Computing Ctr
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