I think it's also worth pointing out that for many folks, the
trademarked name "Listserv" has come to mean a generic term for mailing
list manager software. My only experience with any listserver software
was with the extremely coolly-named Tristero (get it?), which only works
on the Lotus cc:Mail (deeply deeply bad) mail system.
somewhere along the line, I thought I heard that Majordomo is written in
Perl. Am I nuts?
Paul
Rich Kulawiec wrote:
>
> On Sun, Dec 06, 1998 at 08:05:35PM -0600, Mary McWilliams Johnson wrote:
> > Can someone please explain the difference between Listservs and Majordomo?
> >
> > I understand that Listserv is trademarked software, and there's also a
> > Listserv Lite.
>
> Listserv is a commercial product which dates back to BITnet days and
> which is horribly broken is several ways: for example, it wants
> subscriptions to be submitted in the form:
>
> subscribe mailing-list rich kulawiec
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