LISTEARN List Processor, Release 1.0 ------------------------------------------- LISTEARN 1.0 (c) EARN Association 1989,1990 is derived from: LISTSERV 1.5o (c) Eric Thomas 1986,1987,1988,1989 LISTEARN 1.0 Distribution Announcement 1. Availability This version of the code is available to all registered LISTEARN sites. An automatic distribution shall be shipped to those sites that have signed and sent back the LISTEARN Registration form AND who are using LISTSERV 1.5o. This will prevent sites who have signed the LISTEARN agreement and then signed another LISTSERV agreement with Eric Thomas from getting a shipment. Such sites need to get in touch with TURGUT@TREARN if they wish to order LISTEARN 1.0 However, please note that this is a temporary fix and in the subsequent releases (1.1, 1.2, etc) all registered LISTEARN sites -regardless of their current server- may receive a server code update. The shipment date is expected to be the first week of March. 2. Compatibility The compatibility requirements are same as LISTSERV 1.5o 3. Description of changes from LISTSERV 1.5o * Integral support for HEX,XXE,BTOA,VMARC and EBC file formats. * .BITNET suffix not required during a delete operation to enable easier removal of members. * Notebook file no longer closed for each line of the mail header a for a performance gain. * Several new subject headings allow better detection of mailer rejection messages and reduce the likeliness of a mailer and list loop. * Optional BSMTP DIST2 delivery lessens load on gateways and increases DIST2 processing considerably. * Automatic database refresh upon receiving error during a search. * NODEINFO GLOBALV group purged after processing an updated BITEARN NODES to prevent discrepancies. * Server no longer interrupts the shipment of a $PACKAGE because of quota limitations. * New user exit LSV$SUB to prevent the users of certain node(s) (..that run a NEWS system, for example) to subscribe to certain local lists. * Server now provides a weekly report on the files that are sent during the week. * Hang-ups during mail distribution with certain mail headers have been eliminated. * Users with very long network addresses are now serviced using MAILER V2's continuation symbol. * The list of files to be execloaded when the server starts has been extended to include four frequently-used sections of the code for a performance gain. 4. Modules Added to the Code The following modules have been added to LISTEARN for this release: * LSVGSTAT - "Send collected statistics" routine * VMARC: Archive files manager of John S. Fisher <FISHER@RPIECS> * PDEBC,PDUUE,PDXXE,PDHEX and PDBTOA: File encoding utilities of Dr. Gustaf Neumann <NEUMANN@AWIWUW11> 5. Distribution Details The server will install the code itself, unless there are problems experienced during the installation. Sites wishing to disable BSMTP distribution may do so by placing BSMTP = 0 in their LOCAL SYSVARS file. It is enabled by default. 6. Distribution Contents In order to avoid confusion among users and to abide by the agreement between EARN and Eric Thomas, entire LISTSERV program library and documentation had to be edited to differentiate the two types of server. Thus, this rather large shipment contains an edited version of all EXEC, MEMO and other files. The files that have been substantially modified are: BITEARN SYSVARS LISTSERV SYSVARS SYSFF FILE INFO FILEID TOOLS FILEID TOOLS FILELIST INFO FILELIST LISTINST MEMO LISTKEYW MEMO LISTSURV MEMO LISTHEAD EXEC LSV$SUB EXEC LSVBITGN EXEC LSVDBASE EXEC LSVDBLS EXEC LSVDEL EXEC LSVDIST2 EXEC LSVGET EXEC LSVGSTAT EXEC LSVINIT EXEC LSVPROF EXEC LSVRDR EXEC LSVRECV EXEC LSVSENDF EXEC LSVSUBSC EXEC LSVXMAIL EXEC LSVMAIL EXEC PDBTOA MODULE PDEBC MODULE PDHEX MODULE PDXXE MODULE VMARC MODULE VMARC SCRIPT VMARCX SCRIPT PDBTOA ASSEMBLE PDEBC ASSEMBLE PDHEX ASSEMBLE PDXXE ASSEMBLE PDUUE ASSEMBLE PDUUE MODULE