We are running LISTSERV 1.8c under VM/ESA Release 2. Up to now we have
NOT been running SFS. We are running Beyond Software's Webshare
freeware server (v 1.2.3) for web access to CMS.

We have 600+ lists currently. As with every other site, our users can
no longer live with out WEB access to the archives. The only free
product I know of is WLV from Marist (A. Harry WIlliams) and naturally
the same folks who must have access don't want to pay for anything.

My problem comes only from the technical side. Installing/running SFS
seems to be fairly routine (for IBM stuff), but I see nothing in the
LISTSERV installation or site mgrs manuals on how to configure
LISTSERV and the list headers, etc to run with SFS. I also found
virtually nothing in a search of the list archives.

If anyone out there has gone thru this process (either SFS or LISTSERV)
and can offer guidance (maybe even a check list (I know I'm lazy))
I would be most appreciative. Any warnings or other advice is also
solicited.

Since most of the folks on this list seem to be of the UNIX persuasion,
contact me directly.

If you happen to notice I managed to ask this question incorrectly specifying
SMS instead of SFS last week. I really do mean shared file system.