Announcement

May 15, 1997

Adonis, The Friendly Mail Servant

Adonis is a user interface to L-Soft's LISTSERV mail server.
In its current form, Adonis enables people to access a
LISTSERVer via a web interface in order to execute the
commands most often used like "review" and/or set the most
often needed options, e.g. "nomail" when leaving for vacation.
The advantage is the great ease of use that lets you operate
LISTSERVs even *during* your vacation from any web terminal in
the world, say, at a conference, at the airport, or on the
beach ;-).

The version you'll find on the web can serve as an interface
to any LISTSERV worldwide but, for convenience to local
users, it comes with a list of mailing lists predefined.
These are lists run by LISTSERV at the University of
Karlsruhe's Computer Center. A more general tool (extended
to other mailing list handling software, or to an owner
interface, even) might be developed in case of any
significant demand coming-up. Well, indeed, it would have
to be very significant.

Adonis currently runs as a free service to the online
community and any comments about enhancing its usefulness are
highly appreciated. Its source code is not available (yet),
mainly due to some embarrassment of its author, but I might
be convinced to do otherwise, if you try very hard. ;-)

Well, just give it a try starting at either:

  http://www.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de/~listserv

or directly at:

  http://www.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/gherman/Test/Adonis.html

Regards,

Dinu Gherman


PS: Sorry, if you receive this message twice!


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