Re: Listserv's

[Neil Gaede <neil () STTHOM EDU>]

People around here have the bad habit of referring to the lists
themselves as "listserves"; in conversations with those folks I always
make it a point to refer to them as "mailing lists".

I've been monkeying with Sympa off and on for the last year or two.
Sympa 6 does improve many things, but even with the improvements to
the web interface it's still a little obtuse. Its LDAP integration and
dynamic list capabilities are two major reasons why I started looking
at it in the first place, and the fact that it's free didn't hurt
either.



Neil Gaede
Systems Administrator
University of St. Thomas - Houston




On Feb 10, 2010, at 4:15 PM, Jeff Giacobbe wrote:

> 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.