Can't say I do. I've only been working with listserv for about 6 years, and never used anything of that stuff.
From: LISTSERV Site Administrators' Forum <[log in to unmask]> On Behalf Of Nathan Brindle
Sent: Friday, September 9, 2022 2:46 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: file validities
Not if you remember BITNET and EARN (as I see another respondent does). The file is text, you can look at it and see it's just a list of registered BITNET nodes. Just don't try to edit it (or either of the other two).
The reason BITEARN NODES and PEERS.NAMESUM and several of the other BITNET-era networking files are still part of LISTSERV is there were questions as to what might break in obscure parts of the code if those files were removed. So they remain part of LISTSERV even though BITNET is long gone.
PERMVARS FILE is LISTSERV's working cache, and you absolutely do not want to fiddle with it or you will break things.
From: LISTSERV Site Administrators' Forum <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> On Behalf Of Jon Schwendemann
Sent: Friday, September 09, 2022 3:35 PM
To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: file validities
Well, alrighty then. The first 2, I thought might be ok. But bitearn really sounds like something used for cryptomining.
From: LISTSERV Site Administrators' Forum <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> On Behalf Of Nathan Brindle
Sent: Friday, September 9, 2022 2:28 PM
To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: file validities
Those files have been part of LISTSERV since 1986. They were originally named using the 8x8 file naming convention under VM/CMS. There was no reason to change the names when LISTSERV was ported to the "workstation" operating systems, thus they remain with those names to this day.
Nathan
From: LISTSERV Site Administrators' Forum <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> On Behalf Of Jon Schwendemann
Sent: Friday, September 09, 2022 3:22 PM
To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Subject: file validities
I have a question on some files I found in the listserv/home directory.
Peers.namesum
Permvars.file
Bitearn.nodes
Seems to me, if these are legit, they could perhaps be named better.
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