Rion,

Where do you see any indication that list.uvm.edu is serving ASP files?   I
see you posting links to files on lsoft.com with the .asp extension -- and
you can safely assume lsoft is running on a Microsoft operating system (a
marketing adventure) -- but what does that have to do with uvm's listserv?

lsoft.com, however, backlinks to UVM through the URI you provided (
www.lsoft.com/scripts/wl.exe?XH=LIST.UVM.EDU), however, this is clearly not
from a uvm.edu machine.  I would assume lsoft somehow caches a local copy of
UVM's lists (interesting?) for some purpose, perhaps SEO?

I tried wl.exe?xh=adomainiown.com, and lsoft did not dynamically query my
domain (atleast on standard ports).  The manual does not seem to have an
easily identifiable section on this feature.

Stan

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 11:13 PM, Rion D'Luz <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tuesday 17 August 2010, Rubin Bennett wrote:
> > Rion, in your first post, the compatibility for the LSoft listserv lists
> > both Linux and Unix.  Where's the mystery?
>
> Hi Rubin. Thanks for asking; i tried google-searching to find out for
> myself.
>
> The mystery is/was that a supposed unix box is serving .asp/.exe documents
> and as my
> post queried:  does linux/apache have the capability to do so out of the
> OSS box AOT the lsoft box?
> I noticed that lsoft-listserv 1.14 runs/ran on linux hosts though, so i
> suppose linux runs 1.16 also,
>  does it require/use some kind of a mono module to handle .NET?
>
> A bit of reading seems to indicate that lsoft is a big popular package
> (lotsa functionality)
>  that the school found it appealing over other listserv applications is
> probably not surprising.
>  In web searching, discovered osdir.org runs it also. Is it suitable for
> SoHo or mid-sized orgs?
>
> So, my original observation, poorly expressed as usual, was noticing the
> change and being curious about lsoft, in general and
> about possible trade-off this environment exhibit related to .asp served by
> linux
> www.linux.com/archive/feature/53582
>  compared to straight sendmail/postfix mailman and whether it
> factors/scales in light of
> databases, webservers, and specially proxying for clustered/NATted hosts.
>
> apache and a dso (mod_mono?  - http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page)
>  or is it apache tomcat running java servlets (eclipse)?
>
> I'd be curious to know why UVM decided to drop mailman (or was it
> majordomo?) and go with lsoft (classic?).
> Was it more related to sub-clustering, maybe db overhead, or just a matter
> of a better application's
>  UI accessibility/ease of use.
> Does this listserv reside on same host(s) as SMTP? an AFS/GFS mount-point?
>
> I thought I preferred a 'thin' mailman; just a bunch of cgi-scripts, low
> overhead on port 80 if it has to
> be on the same host as 25/110/587/993.
>  Despite being fw'd to one remote host, thinking about it, i'm gonna remove
> apache from mail*.* in favor of lighthttpd
> or similiar, since its only accessed by one proxy for mailman users.
> I've always setup mailman and sendmail on same host, but am curious whether
> its possible for mailman to access remote smtp host.
>
> wget
> http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/16.0/install/LISTSERV16.0_InstallManual_UNIXSimplified.pdf
> LISTSERV Free Edition for Unix
> That pdf is rather terse. Choose DBMS, compile,  setup web interface and
> cgi-bin and go.
> Next, please choose which DB modules to link with.
> OCI? (Requires that SQL*Net is installed on the local machine.) [y/n] n
> DB2? (Requires that DB2 be installed on the local machine.) [y/n] n
> UODBC? (Requires that unixODBC be installed on the local machine. DB2 must
> be disabled.) [y/n] n
> wget
> http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/16.0/install/LISTSERV16.0_InstallManual_UNIX.htm
>
> For Sendmail, see the Telling Sendmail about LISTSERV section.
> For Postfix, see both the Sendmail section and the Telling Postfix about
> LISTSERV section.
> For qmail, see the Telling qmail about LISTSERV section.
>
> Are you guys able to run mySQL via  ODBC? Or do you run Oracle?
>
> Anyhow, I was just being curious and another 45 minutes of web-sniffing
> didn't yield much by way of answers.
>
>
> Rion
>
> >
> > R
> >
> > Rubin Bennett
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> >
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> >
>
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