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From: CALIFFM@BAYLOR.BITNET (Michael Califf)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: RE: Local Listserv Software??
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Date: 5 Jul 88 17:04:00 GMT
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Allen:

    I use PMDF's alias facility for keeping track of local mailing lists.
For a while I tried using VMS's FORWARD facility, forwarding a dummy
username (IVAXLIST) to a file, but people wanted to be able to forward to
other machines, and down links caused problems.  We are currently working
on an auto-subscription mechanism using DELIVER (a companion program to
PMDF) but have not made much progress yet.
    There are also several news/bbs programs for VMS which would do
what you want (probably in a much more efficient fashion) but I do not
know anything about them besides the fact that they exist.


Mike Califf
Communications Programming Coordinator
Baylor University
CALIFFM@BAYLOR.BITNET