Re: Listserv's

[Jeff Kell <jeff-kell () UTC EDU>]

On 2/10/2010 4:05 PM, Valdis Kletnieks wrote:
> I have the LSoft 20th anniversary shirt that says 'There is only one LISTSERV'.
> Eric Thomas told me they paid for the shirts out of their "trademark protection"
> budget, not their "advertising" budget - the term hasn't gone generic yet.
>
> The scary part is I've been working with it long enough to know *why* it
> was called the 'Revised' Listserv 2 decades plus ago. ;)

Ditto.  It crawled out of IBM VM land many moons ago.

Had a rather neat distribution algorithm too, which was used by more
than mailing lists :-)

Jeff