I did not think I had anything to contribute to this "back in the old days"
thread, but the inclusion of IRISHVM in Nathan's list of the first 25 licenses
prompted me to review Notre Dame's history with LISTSERV.

IRISHVM (LISTSERV license #011) was a VM system which was, I believe, operated
by our College of Engineering. I do not know when the plug was pulled on that
system, but I am fairly certain that it was no longer in existence when I came
to Notre Dame in the spring of 1996. By that time, LISTSERV (license #230) was
running on IRISHVMA, a VM system operated by the Office of Information
Technologies. I inherited LISTSERV on IRISHVMA in the summer of 1996 and
migrated LISTSERV from VM to Solaris in the spring of 1998. For a while, our
Alumni Association ran a seperately licensed instance of LISTSERV on their own
server, however, their lists have been hosted on listserv.nd.edu since the
spring of 2002. If I have counted correctly, we have been through at least four
licenses, although I do not know whether we have been running LISTSERV
continuously since we received license #011.

-- 
Paul Russell, Senior Systems Administrator
OIT Messaging Services Team
University of Notre Dame
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