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From: cluther@supernet.dallas.haus.com (Clay Luther)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Mailing lists... How does one organize thee?
Keywords: NEED MAILING LIST UTILITY
Message-ID: <1991Apr3.201021.759@supernet.dallas.haus.com>
Date: 3 Apr 91 20:10:21 GMT
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willson@seas.gwu.edu (Stephen R. Willson) writes:

>	I am currently attempting to organize a mailing list for a national
>student organization.  I would like to have a utility that will do this 
>automatically.  For example someone send me a message with the subject
>'INCLUDE ME' and the program adds the persons name to the list or sends them
>some type of questionaire in response.  I am hoping that someone out their
>might know where I can acquire such a utility.  I appreciate any help.

I am the moderator of two mailing lists and I use a homegrown software package
called "lm", written in Perl.

Lm processes a mail message (or unix mailbox), looking for valid commands.
Basic commands are subscribe, unsubscribe, who, dir, get, ping, help, scan, and
extract.  That's right, lm also acts a a poor man's mailserver.

The actual software is stable, though not complete.  If you are interested, and
you have perl, feel free to contact me.

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