Re: Definition of List Server

[Thom Randolph <thom -at- HALCYON -dot- COM>]

Folks:

Did you, like me, miss the REAL gem in the middle
of that definition? What appears to be one of the
mothers of all list-lists is at:

        http://www.liszt.com/

They claim 90,950 lists at this date, and, even
we are in there! There are well over 100 Linux
lists listed there.

Thom Randolph
thom -at- halcyon -dot- com

At 07:26 AM 8/13/99 -0700, Thom Randolph wrote:
>At 04:42 PM 8/12/99 -0700, you wrote:
>>Anybody know a good definition of a list server?
>>~~~~~ Bev Lockhart, Documentation Editor for Seattle Lab
>>
>
>Bev.
>
>Here's the best I could find on the net. It's at
>
>http://www.trinity.edu/~rjensen/245glosf.htm#L-Terms
>
>Turns out that apparently the "correct" wording is a
>single word, without the last "e". And, it's someone's
>trademark!
>
>Thom Randolph
>thom -at- halcyon -dot- com
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>Listserv=
>  an email system where users "subscribe" to join
>  in on group messages. A message sent to the
>  listserv is sent to every subscriber's mail box.
>
>  A listserv is similar to an email "bulletin board."
>  However, users of bulletin boards do not receive
>  the messages in their mail boxes without first
>  going to the bulletin board to view a listing of
>  messages. There are thousands upon thousands of
>  listservs on topics of mutual interest from sewing
>  to microbiology. It is common for college courses
>  to have a listserv so that instructors and students
>  can all communicate easily with group messages. Over
>  70,000 interest groups (at this writing) are linked
>  at http://www.liszt.com/. Comparisons with bulletin
>  boards, email groups, chat rooms, etc. are made in
>  the e-mail definition of this glossary.  See e-mail,
>  Chat Lines, IRC, USENet, teleconferencing,
>  videoconferencing, webcasting, and telephony.
>
>Chris Nolan at Trinity University wrote the following in an email message
>on October 7, 1998:
>
>    I was told by my book editor today that L-Soft, the
>    owner of the Listserv software, sent a letter to the
>    American Library Association about the use of the
>    term "listserv" in some recent ALA publications. L-Soft
>    claims that the term is trade marked and therefore cannot
>    be used as a generic term for these sorts of bulletin
>    board/mailing list systems, much like Xerox not being
>    used as a generic for photocopying. Although I had only
>    used the term once in my manuscript, ALA?s editors felt
>    that I should either capitalize the term to refer to the
>    L-Soft software or use other terms to describe the more
>    general concept.
>
>    Checking L-Soft International?s web site, I see that they
>    clearly state that LISTSERV is a trademark of their company.
>
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