Hmm, it's  probably best  if I  don't comment on  that in  public. L-Soft
international Inc.  started in  February 1994  as a desk  in a  corner of
Logika's office (Logika later became  the Walter Shelby Group following a
trademark conflict  with Logica of  NY). At  that time they  had physical
access to our machines and everything that was on them. I am not claiming
anything  at this  point,  just  that they  had  physical  access to  our
machines and everything that was on them. L-Soft may or may not choose to
make other claims at a later date and in a more suitable forum.
 
Setting  aside the  very special  nature  of our  relationship with  this
particular company,  it looks like the  main feature of this  new mailing
list manager is its web interface. As  you know, L-Soft is also moving in
that direction.  Unfortunately this  project got  stalled due  to growing
pains and only  about 1/3 of the functions have  been implemented to date
(archive interface and the search  engine we now call CataList). However,
the hiring spree finally started paying off  about a month ago, and a lot
of progress has been made on  our agenda recently: database functions for
non-VM systems,  web interface for  list archives with full  MIME support
(now  interfaced   to  the  database  functions),   spoofed  subscription
detector, "hands off" bounce  management, Macintosh version, "super-list"
support, etc. We still have a  backlog, but it's melting away. Dave Boyes
joined  L-Soft two  days  ago :-),  and  will  be in  charge  of the  web
interface project.  Dave Hanna is  working full-time on a  management GUI
for NT and we will be announcing a couple of new products this summer for
LISTSERV's 10th  anniversary. There  will be a  big celebration  with all
sorts  of interesting  things  happening,  but it's  a  surprise and  the
marketing folks will kill me if I so much as drop a hint :-)
 
  Eric