Re: Listserv's

[Jeff Giacobbe <giacobbej () MAIL MONTCLAIR EDU>]

We too use Sympa (having just converted thousands of lists from an
ancient version of Lyris).  Latest Sympa 6.x has a much improved web gui
than the 5.x branch, though we haven't upgraded to 6.x yet.

Sympa is FOSS and as mentioned integrates well with LDAP, including the
ability to build mailing lists dynamically "on the fly" based on LDAP
search criteria (i.e. send email to every user who's LDAP department
attribute = "English" at the time the message is being distributed)

Regards,

Jeff Giacobbe
Assistant Vice President Enterprise Technology
Montclair State University




On 2/10/10 4:11 PM, Joe Vieira wrote:
> We use Sympa, have somewhere in the high thousands (7,000+) of lists.
> Sympa also integrates with openLDAP really nice.
> Joe Vieira
> Manager, Systems Administration
> Clark University
>
> Valdis Kletnieks wrote:
> > On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:46:56 CST, "Julian Y. Koh" said:
> >
> >
> > > To be pedantic, "listserv" refers itself to a specific software package.
> > > :)  But perhaps it's been Kleenexed or Xeroxed.  :)
> >
> > 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. ;)
> >
> > Yes, we run the LSoft software.  8,441 lists defined at the moment.