>From: Michelle Murrain <mpmNS@hamp.hampshire.edu>
>Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 17:03:29 -0500 (EST)
>The advantage of listproc, majordomo or smartlist is that they are still
>free, whereas listserv costs bucks. (I heard about "listserv lite" which is a
>freeware version of listserv?)
LISTSERV-Lite is not freeware! It has many fewer features than LISTSERV.
Particularly, it is missing the spam-detection features, and the
group-moderation features. (LISTSERV has the ability to distribute moderation
duties among a group of moderators for an active list.)
LISTSERV-Lite is a commercial application aimed at management of lists of no
more than a few hundred users. But, it still has LISTSERV's main functions: of
bundling together outbound traffic aimed at specific domains, to reduce your
own system's overhead.
Next year, Eric Thomas, the author, has promised to make free permanent
licenses to use LISTSERV-Lite available to people who are specifically not in
the business of selling mailing list management services. However, there are
severe restrictions on this. You may not manage more than 10 lists. You may
not be a membership organization that offers messages as a benefit of
membership. You may not convert your newsletter to a mailing list.
Obviously, the latter restrictions will simply be on the honor system.
Mr. Thomas has said that support for the "free" version of LISTSERV-Lite will
be next to nonexistant. However, when I was having trouble with an evaluation
copy, he personally sent me a response!
LISTSERV-Lite has been ported to some, but not all operating systems. There
are versions for VMS, 2 for NT, but only a handful of Unices. In contrast,
LISTSERV has been ported to 13 flavors of Unix!
The evaluation copies expire at the end of the year.
ftp.lsoft.com, LISTSERV-Lite directory
http://www.lsoft.com/listserv-lite.html
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