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- NAME
-
- listserv
-
- SYNOPSIS
-
- listserv [directive [mailinglist ...]]
-
- DESCRIPTION
-
- This service mimicks most of the commands in the listserv package for mailing
- list maintenance. The available directives are:
-
- lists get names of lists at this site
- subscribe <mailing list> <your real name> get on a mailing list
- unsubscribe <mailing list> get off a mailing list
- signoff <mailing list> ditto
- recipients <mailing list> get list of mailing list members
- review <mailing list> ditto
- information <mailing list> get a blurb on a mailing list
- which get a list of the mailing lists in
- which you appear
- get archive <mailing list> get the archive of
- mailing list submissions
- release get information on the release
- help get this message
-
- If the incoming message has a Reply-to: header line, then that address
- will be used for the (un)subscriptions, etc., as well as the
- destination for all responses. (Thus one can manipulate someone
- else's memberships).
-
- For added compatibility with the original LISTSERV package, if there
- is no directive on the subject line then the body of the message will
- be processed. Each line is treated as a complete directive, with
- blank lines being ignored and a line consisting entirely of two dashes
- (--) ending processing. Multiple responses will be delivered as
- multiple messages.
-
- Membership in mailing lists can be confidential (i.e., recipients and
- review will not respond will a list of members) if the mailing list
- file is made not readable by "other" on the local system.
-
- The get command (via archive-request) looks in the archive directory for
- a file by the same name as the <mailing list>. Thus we suggest that an
- entry in the mailing list be the name of this file (sendmail appends new
- messages onto this file).
-
- LIMITATIONS
-
- Mailing lists must be manually created; e.g., to create a list called "mylist",
- do a "touch ~/Lists/mylist" and then add the following line to your system's
- /etc/aliases file: "mylist: :include:~/Lists/mylist" (where you have to replace
- the "~" with services' home directory on your system).
-