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LISTSERV at Work - LISTSERV 25th Anniversary Issue

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Highlights of This Issue:

* LISTSERV Online Celebration: Invitation to Party
* LISTSERV 25th Anniversary Tour
* New Website and Opt-In Center
* What's Your LISTSERV Story? The LISTSERV Community Shares
* The Mailys: BELG-L, Discussion List on Belgian Shepherd Dogs, Wins May Voting, Qualifies as Second Finalist
* LISTSERV Tech Tip

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*** LISTSERV Online Celebration: Invitation to Party ***

* Videocast/Live Chat with LISTSERV Inventor Eric Thomas Scheduled for September 15th *

L-Soft is excited to announce that the videocast and live chat with Eric Thomas, L-Soft Founder and CEO, who developed LISTSERV in 1986, will take place September 15, 2011, at 12 noon U.S. Eastern Time. We invite you and your colleagues, co-list owners, subscribers and friends to join the online celebration of a quarter-century of the software that pioneered opt-in email list communication. Please join the party with L-Soft staff and customers worldwide by organizing get-togethers with other LISTSERV enthusiasts on September 15. It's a fun opportunity to participate in the online chat while enjoying refreshments - after all, it's at breakfast time on the U.S. West Coast, lunchtime on the U.S. East Coast and after-work time in Europe ... and Australia.

VISIT PARTY ROOM: http://www.lsoft.com/news/listserv25years.asp
VIEW PARTY INVITATION: http://www.lsoft.com/news/listserv25party.asp
POST LIVE CHAT QUESTION: http://www.lsoft.com/news/livechat.asp

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*** LISTSERV 25th Anniversary Tour ***

When Eric Thomas first developed LISTSERV 25 years ago, the World Wide Web didn't yet exist, and the Internet was still in its infancy. Take a visual tour to see how LISTSERV, the pioneering email list management software, has evolved over the years - with screenshots of past versions, interesting photos from back in the day and a glimpse into the future.

TAKE LISTSERV TOUR: http://www.lsoft.com/news/listserv25tour.asp
GET THE STORY OF LISTSERV: http://www.lsoft.com/news/listserv25story.asp

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*** New Website and Opt-In Center ***

Today, L-Soft launched a new company website and opt-in center. The website will make L-Soft's product information and support resources more easily accessible, and the new password-protected opt-in center offers you more control over your subscriptions. Your subscriptions have been automatically transferred to the new system. However, we urge you to get a password and set up your profile fields. This will allow you to more closely fine-tune and tailor your subscriptions to L-Soft's newsletters and announcements to fit your interests.

VISIT NEW WEBSITE: http://www.lsoft.com
GET PASSWORD TO OPT-IN CENTER: http://community.emailogy.com/list/requestPassword.html?lui=fe03n4zc&mContainer=71&mOwner=G312p362z2t382x322v

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*** What's Your LISTSERV Story? The LISTSERV Community Shares ***

The first LISTSERV stories are in, and we invite you to share yours. Tell us how LISTSERV software or an email list that runs on LISTSERV software has helped you in your work or your life in general.

Whether you're an early adopter or a new subscriber, we want to hear from you. Meanwhile, we welcome you to read the stories that have already been submitted by other LISTSERV enthusiasts.

READ OR SHARE YOUR STORY: http://www.lsoft.com/news/listservstory.asp

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*** The Mailys: BELG-L, Discussion List on Belgian Shepherd Dogs, Wins May Voting, Qualifies as Second Finalist ***

The winner of the May 2011 monthly voting in The Mailys is BELG-L, with 43.10% of the vote. Overall voting participation increased in May, with 11,912 votes cast. BELG-L is now the second of five finalists eligible for Grand Prize award consideration.

The vote counters were reset at the start of June. There are three more months for your top pick to advance to the grand prize jury stage, so don't wait. An L-Soft promotional item of your choice, including t-shirts and tote bags, will be mailed to all people who nominate a new list. Be a part of The Mailys during this very special LISTSERV 25th Anniversary year.

READ MORE: http://www.lsoft.com/news/choiceawards.asp
NOMINATE: http://www.lsoft.com/news/choiceform.asp
VOTE: http://www.lsoft.com/news/choicevote.asp

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*** Tech Tip: LISTSERV ***

Q: Why do my logs show my LISTSERV server sending mail to other LISTSERV sites?

Answer by Liam Kelly
Senior Consulting Analyst, L-Soft

New LISTSERV customers are often confused to look in their log files and find that their LISTSERV server is sending and receiving mail to and from other LISTSERV sites. The short answer is that by default, LISTSERV servers communicate with one another to share things like spam alerts, network routing updates and list mail distribution. This feature can be enabled or disabled by way of the RUNMODE site configuration variable. For the longer answer, we need to go back in time to the days when bandwidth was scarce, server time was expensive and network connectivity wasn't necessarily an "always-on" resource.

READ MORE: http://www.lsoft.com/news/techtipLSV-listserv25years-2011.asp

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*** About LISTSERV at Work ***

LISTSERV at Work is L-Soft's customer newsletter. Published quarterly, LISTSERV at Work keeps customers and the L-Soft community up-to-date with the company's latest developments. Each newsletter contains the latest LISTSERV product and industry news, as well as opinions, guidelines and tech tips.

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