On Tue, 21 Nov 89 17:43:59 EDT Alain Auroux said: >I really think we should promote LISTEARN agressively. >Are you in a position to send development plans of LISTEARN on this list, and >to start any other action to improve the visibility of LISTEARN? I started doing some 'agressive' improvements on listearn. for example, the other day I corrected the 'long path line' bug, which caused the server to hang with headers that were longer than 80 chars. Yesterday, I put in changes to LSVDIST2 (distribute) so that the local mail will be handled by the mailer, in one copy, instead of one-copy-per- recipient.. I threw the changes I made to the listtech list, and I am waiting for feedback from people, maybe I over-simplified the operation. >I plan to address the problem during the next EXEC, but to do that, I need >an action plan: any idea? well, I am better at coding then talking :) >May be you can widely advertise the NOG decision (saying that it is >a technical decision, not a political one) on all LISTXXX lists, and to give >more information on the LISTEARN developmment, to give confidence to LISTSERV >users, and incite them to move to LISTEARN. I think we need time.. >Part of the problem is that: >1. They know Eric well, but they don't yet know you xell enough. >2. Eric is moving ahead with new versions, beta test sites, etc... > I think you should a bit formalize your work, call LISTSERV 1.5o > LISTEARN 1.0 and announce/distribute new versions more formally. sounds fine. I am just waiting for this DIST business.. It works well here, but I am not sure that it will work all the time. Regards, -turgut