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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