Subject: Re: listserv hosed? [Was: Fwd: nanog.org mailing list memberships reminder] Date: Fri, Feb 02, 2018 at 06:30:20AM -0500 Quoting Rich Kulawiec ([email protected]): > > 1. It's not a listserv. It's a mailing list. ListServ is obsolete, > expensive, closed-source garbage software used exclusively by people > who don't know any better and like to waste their money.
Butbutbut!
A VM/370 app that still does all internal processing in EBCDIC, even on
POSIX OSes[0], with almost-ascii config files, and that ran very well
on VMS? What is there not to love?
/Måns, former sysop at SEGATE.SUNET.SE
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What's the MATTER Sid? ... Is your BEVERAGE unsatisfactory?
[0] Eric Thomas, mr LISTSERV himself, told me this when we were migrating
that large LISTSERV one dark night 17 years ago.
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