As a fairly long-term, non-techie list owner, I suspect I may be missing
something here, but . . .

> Patrick Fitzgerald's Mailserv server (http://advicom.net/fitzbin/listserv)
> is caput.   The Mailserv perl script is available at
> http://www.csicop.org/~fitz/www/mailserv/.  Is anyone currently running it,
> or willing to try?  Does anyone know of an alternative?  I'm using 1.8c.
>  The list is set to OPEN,CONFIRM, so forced subscribing is not an issue.
>
> My subscribers, mostly non-computer professionals, found Mailserv extremely
> useful.  Some of them have a difficult time sending e-mail commands.

I looked quickly at the mailserv site and I don't understand what it's
offering that the web interface currently available with listserv
doesn't.  I couldn't be happier with the utilities available through
it.   It's linked to the (very slick) archive site, and unless there's a
lot more local tweaking going on than I'm aware of, is extremely
straightforward and powerful.

One of mine's at

        http://listserv.unb.ca/stlhe-l.html

Have a look if you want to compare its functionality to something else.

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