At the risk of being flamed off this _Usenet newsgroup_ may I add my voice
to that of the English teacher, Natalie Maynor, in her gazelle vs. sloth
comparison of Revised Listserv vs. ListProcessor 6.0  While incompetent to
commentment on the the technical differences between the two programs
because I am not a programmer of any sort, I am highly qualified to discuss
the functionality of the two programs from the point of view of an end user.
 
For nearly two years at the cost of domestic tranquility and risking
divorce, I have spent from sixty to eighty hours per week networking on
listserv (with a lower case "l" it is a generic wrod as far as I'm
concerned) lists.  Most of that time I have spent using Revised Listserv
1.7.  For the last eight or nine months I have spent this time reading and
posting to a high volume list that switched from Listserv to ListProcessor.
And since August I have been a listowner of two lists running on a
hobbiests home machine under Majordomo by Brent Chapman.
 
From an end users point of view, Revised Listserv is king.  I rue the day
my favorite list converted to ListProcessor.  I hate it.  It might be
faster, but the archives suck.  I like Majordomo better.  And for the
fellow that corrected my spelling, it is spelled M-a-j-o-r-d-o-m-o from the
word of the same name in the dictionary.
 
I LOVE Revised Listserv!  The archives and the database searching functions
using ldbase.com under VAX/VMS are _awesome_.  I would die for a chance to
run my two lists under Revised Listserv.  Unfortunately, I am not a
computer person.  I have no university affiliation except as a part-time
student taking a one-hour computer science class in order to obtain my Net
access.  I am a writer, a political activist and an ecclesiastic; and I
would rather be a listowner on the Internet than be a bigshot
editor-publisher of a major periodical.  Listserv will change the face of
human civilization.
 
But please let it be on Revised Listserv or something functionally similar
to the end user, both the reader and the listowner.  One the greatest
frustrations of my adult life has been the fact that Revised Listserv does
not run on Unix or VAX/VMS systems.
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