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LISTSERV at Work - Issue 3, 2009
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In this Issue:
* L-Soft Celebrates 15th Anniversary
* LISTSERV Choice Awards Grand Prize Winner: ICORS
* L-Soft's New Offices in Sweden: A Photographic Tour
* Eric Thomas Creates Award for World Wide Words
* Tech Tip: LISTSERV
* Tech Tip: LISTSERV Maestro
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*** L-Soft Celebrates 15th Anniversary ***
By L-Soft Staff
An anniversary is a birthday of sorts, a time for reflection and
celebration, and we welcome you to join us in commemorating L-Soft's
15th.
L-Soft's journey as a company began in 1994 when Eric Thomas, who
invented LISTSERV in 1986, in his own words "founded L-Soft with $3,000
and a laptop in order to further develop LISTSERV."
We would like to thank all LISTSERV at Work readers and our thousands
of customers around the world and hope to earn the opportunity to
provide our world-class LISTSERV® brand solutions to readers who are
not currently using them.
We hope you will enjoy exploring our new interactive tools and special
offers, all with a sharp focus on what L-Soft's products enable
organizations and people to do: Communicate, Collaborate and Connect.
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*** LISTSERV Choice Awards Grand Prize Winner: ICORS ***
By L-Soft Staff
An L-Soft jury led by Founder and CEO Eric Thomas has selected ICORS to
receive the Grand Prize in the 2008-09 competition. ICORS is a
non-profit, all volunteer, 501(c)(3) charity dedicated to assisting
individuals and groups that offer support, information and community to
people in need, including individuals affected by disability, family
issues, health issues and other similar needs. ICORS accomplishes its
mission by providing technical assistance and services to list owners
at hundreds of health and social service organizations to support the
organizations' work with individuals in need.
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*** L-Soft's New Offices in Sweden: A Photographic Tour ***
By L-Soft Staff
L-Soft has moved to new, modern and larger offices in Stockholm,
Sweden. The Stockholm office will serve as the new home for L-Soft's
headquarters with the research and development, sales and marketing
departments in daily contact with L-Soft's offices and telecommuters in
Europe, the United States and Australia. The office is located in a
white, elegant and completely renovated commercial building from the
1960s. As the first tenant in the new space, L-Soft has participated in
shaping both the floor plan and the interior design from the start.
Come and take a sightseeing tour of Stockholm from an L-Soft
perspective.
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*** Eric Thomas Creates Award for World Wide Words ***
By L-Soft Staff
L-Soft Founder and CEO Eric Thomas has chosen to honor World Wide Words
with the 2008-09 Timeless Award, presented in commemoration of L-Soft's
15th Anniversary. This award was specially created for World Wide
Words, which publishes a weekly e-magazine run on LISTSERV software
featuring useful and interesting information on "international English
from a British viewpoint" by Michael Quinion. It is distributed to some
30,000 English speakers worldwide via email in addition to 20,000 more
who read the e-magazine through the separate RSS service.
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*** Tech Tip: LISTSERV ***
Q: How can I maximize security for my LISTSERV installation or for
individual LISTSERV lists?
Answer by Ben Parker
Chief Corporate Consultant, L-Soft
From time to time a question arises about how to increase security for
a LISTSERV installation or for individual LISTSERV lists. The basic
means for improving security is to deny access to any information that
might be used by unscrupulous persons to attack your server or your
list.
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*** Tech Tip: LISTSERV Maestro ***
Q: Is it possible to add a "timestamp" profile field to a dataset that
is updated whenever any of the other profile fields are changed?
Answer by Johannes Hubert and Holly Taylor
LISTSERV Maestro Project Manager and Technical Writer, L-Soft
For many data administrators, keeping track of their subscribers' data
and its accuracy is a major concern. Simply having a way to keep track
of the last date and time that a specific record was updated would be
beneficiary. Because of this need, LISTSERV Maestro 4.0-5 and later has
made it possible for you to create a "timestamp" that helps you keep
your subscriber information up-to-date. This timestamp is created by
adding a special derivation rule formula to a derived profile field.
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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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USA
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