On another note, I think (if my memory isn't wrong, since my ISP has
already removed that function for some reason) that IMail(TM) from
Ipswitch actually uses "listserv" as the name of their mailing list
manager. (I can't tell for sure if it's used as the name of the MLM or the
daemon or alias since I'm not familiar with IMail.)

One suggestion: maybe if we say LISTSERV(TM) to refer to the program it
might help the average users to note that this is something proprietary.
(I know this forces things like AT&T(R) or "McDonalds(R) Happy
Meals(SM)" and so forth, but those names aren't used as generic names for
their products, at least not as widespread as LISTSERV is.)

Juntung :-)



On Tue, 13 Oct 1998, Mike Trittipo wrote:

> Nathan Brindle [mailto:[log in to unmask]] wrote:
> << More properly speaking, LISTSERV is a daemon, not a robot. >>
>
> Point well taken.  But the people who don't get the differences among
> listserv, listproc, mlm, and the list itself, etc. aren't yet at that level.
> (Even my "address for people" part isn't quite correct, since the "address
> for people" is actually _not_ any person's address, it's just that stuff
> sent to it eventually gets distributed to people's addresses.)  My "robot"
> is an  analogy from Karel Capek, not a definition from computer science.
> But maybe I should "robotit" with it a bit.  :-)  (I'd use "genie," except
> people seem to imagine genies as having some understanding, not just blindly
> following commands . . ..  Other ideas??)
>
> Mike Trittipo
> Director of Technology
> Minn. State Bar Assoc.
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