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From: DLV@CUNYVMS1.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: LISTSERV FOR UNIX?
Message-ID: <9007040357.AA11305@jade.berkeley.edu>
Date: 4 Jul 90 03:57:00 GMT
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Dear Liudvikas Bukys,

The author and maintainer of LISTSERV is Eric Thomas, ERIC@SEARN.SUNET.SE
(that's Sweden:). He's very busy all the time.

The idea of having a LISTSERV on VAX/VMS or Unix has been around for a while;
alas, it's much too complex to be easily ported (the program is written in REXX
and depends on certain features of REXX that make it very hard to xlate it into
anything else; an attempt to rewrite to for VMS has been abandoned, I hear).
My advise to you would be either to take some existing unix mail archive server
and change it to understand 'sub' and 'unsub' commands; or move your mailing
lists to a CMS machine that runs LISTSERV. For example, I run rustex-l, a
mailing list for discussing Russian text processing, and it's hosted in Buffalo
(LISTSERV@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU). The postmaster there is very kind and hosts
several other lists whose maintainers are not at Buffalo (e.g., BALT-L, about
connecting the Baltic states to the network 'before Moscow':).
You can get *some* documentation on LISTSERV by mailing 'INFO GENINTRO' to any
listserv on the net.

Best regards,
D.Vulis