The Internet provides thousands of discussion groups via e-mail. Participants
in these discussion groups place themselves on mailing lists, called "lists"
for short, in order to be able to send messages to and receive messages
from the various lists. ListProcessor, ListProc for short, is a powerful
mailing list agent that keeps track of thousands of people subscribed to
any number of mailing lists. When a user subscribes to a list, that person's
name and e-mail address are automatically added to the list of subscribers.
The new subscriber will receive a form letter of welcome telling about
the list. Then all mail sent to the list by other subscribers will be sent
to the new subscriber also. If the new subscriber wants to reply to these
messages and sends in a response to a message, the message will be sent
out to everyone who is subscribed to the list. Users may post messages,
review members of lists, review the configuration set up of lists, etc.
ListProc allows full control over the list and its configuration to
the list owner, freeing up the system manager from having to make major
modifications for the list owners when needed. ListProc is also a powerful
file archiver, allowing search and retrieval of text files based on regular
expressions and e-mail retrieval of binary files automatically uuencoded
and divided into manageable sized portions. It is automated, and eliminates
the need for user intervention and maintenance of multiple aliases of the
form "list, list-owner, list-request", etc. There is support
provided for public and private hierarchical archives, moderated and non-moderated
lists, peer lists, peer servers, private lists, address aliasing, news
connections and gateways, mail queuing, digests, list ownership, owner
preferences, crash recovery, batch processing, configurable headers, regular
expressions, archive searching, and live user connections via TCP/IP.
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