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Subject: Re: Mailing lists mentioned in books and files
From: Info-LabVIEW List Maintainer <info-labview-request @ pica . army . mil>
Organization: Electric Armts Div, US Army ARDEC, Picatinny Arsenal, NJ
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 95 14:34:59 EST
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Stephanie da Silva <arielle@bonkers.taronga.com> wrote:
>Brian Behlendorf <brian@hyperreal.com>:
>> What would be *nice* is an RFC describing 
>> standard public mailing list behavior, with a standard mailing list 
>> management package address (like what is now mainly majordomo@host or 
>> listserv@host, but it should be non-softwarepackage-specific) and a 
>> standard set of commands for learning about the lists offered and any 
>> other special information about them.  Then robots could be written to 
>> traverse the net looking for lists, keeping lists-of-lists up to date, 
>> etc.  Any takers?
>
>Two comments about this.
>
>1) Not all mailing lists are run using list management software (I may
>   be misinterpreting what you're saying, but that's the gist I'm getting).

I get the same gist. And I have the same problem. *I* am the list management
software here.

                  Tom Coradeschi, Info-LabVIEW List Maintainer
                      <info-labview-request@pica.army.mil>
                http://k-whiner.pica.army.mil/info-labview.html

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