At 05:43 08/04/2001 Saturday, Stan Horwitz wrote:
 >In the 15 years or so that I have been working with Listserv, I have met
 >only one person, me, at our installation who bothered to use filelists.
 >Under Unix, I just don't miss that feature since Unix also makes it easy
 >to install an Apache http server to house files of many sorts that can be
 >accessible via the web.

As I recall, PSUVM used alot of AFD/FUI, esp. for software distribution
e.g., (remember) NETNEWS (on VM/CMS)?

Now *I* depend upon things like NETMIND (MIND-IT).

Poor-man's FUI:

TOPIC= FUI
DEFAULT-TOPICS= ALL,-FUI

Subscriber issues SET listname TOPICS +FUI

list-owner sends:

Subject: FUI: file blah-blah-blah has been updated