Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!usc!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!eru!luth!sunic!mcsun!hp4nl!mhres!squirrel!jv From: jv@mh.nl (Johan Vromans) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl Subject: Re: Listserv Message-ID: <1990Jul14.101729.15986@squirrel.mh.nl> Date: 14 Jul 90 10:17:29 GMT References: <1990Jul13.173111.506@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU> Sender: jv@squirrel.mh.nl (Johan Vromans) Reply-To: Johan Vromans Organization: Multihouse Automation, the Netherlands Lines: 19 In-Reply-To: worley@compass.com's message of 13 Jul 90 17:31:11 GMT In article <1990Jul13.173111.506@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU> worley@compass.com (Dale Worley) writes: > Has anybody considered reimplementing it [the Bitnet "Listserv" > program] in Perl to run on Un*x (which shouldn't be too hard, except > for interfacing to the mailer)? Just in case anyone wants to try: I have a mail response server that could be used a a starting point. It handles the interface to the mailer and knows about RFC822 addresses. But of course, real programmers never start with something someone else has written :-). Johan -- Johan Vromans jv@mh.nl via internet backbones Multihouse Automatisering bv uucp: ..!{uunet,hp4nl}!mh.nl!jv Doesburgweg 7, 2803 PL Gouda, The Netherlands phone/fax: +31 1820 62911/62500 ------------------------ "Arms are made for hugging" -------------------------