Lserv 1.00 released! )1/2
7 Nov 1994

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From: gaven.cohen@cool.alt.za (Gaven Cohen)
Newsgroups: alt.bbs.wildcat
Subject: Lserv 1.00 released! )1/2
Date: Mon,  7 Nov 1994 15:46:00 GMT
Message-ID: <941107175154235@cool.alt.za>
Organization: Cool BBS, South Africa <sysop@cool.iaccess.za>
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Hi Guys,

I am *PROUD* to release the initial release of the Lserv program, a
listserver / mailing list program for WildCat! 4.01 or above.  This has
VAST improvements over the 0.99b beta, which will be mentioned below.

Some feature highlights over the beta are cool new display screens, vast
speed improvements and bug fixes, many more features, and other bits and
pieces.

Some general program highlights:  ability to host multiple mailing
lists, seamless invisible message pointer file,  get request (sends
file/s back UUencoded and ability for remote 'administrators' to get
lists of the subscribers to particular groups.

To beta users:  This was actually a little rushed release...  at least
two of the mentioned 'upcoming features' were to be included in the
initial release, but because of the fact that WC4.01 cannot use WC4.00 I
released Lserv as soon as possible.

Cheers,
Gaven

**  "Feature Section" and "Changes from 0.99b" follows...  LSERV100.ZIP
    is available from Pete Dalinis' famous WildCat! FTP site.  FTP to
    abailable from Pete Dalinis' famous WildCat! FTP site.  FTP to
    nw.hamshack.com, cd to /sys/wc/wccode, and get LSERV100.ZIP

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"Feature Section" of Manual
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  * ABLE TO HOST MULTIPLE INTERNET MAILING LISTS.

  * ALLOWS REMOTE USERS TO SUBSCRIBE VIA E-MAIL.
    Users can send an e-mail message to 'LISTSERV@YOUR.DOMAIN.NAME' and in
    the body of the message,  can place commands such as subscribe, unsub,
    sub, unsubscribe, etc.

  * SENDS OPERATION REPLIES.
    Lserv will reply to each message it receives,  with the success or un-
    success of the operations requested.    Customizable messages are sent
    with successful SUBs and UNSUBs, and a customizable 'invalid requests'
    file is sent with unsuccessful.

  * NAME CHECKING.
    Lserv will not subscribe users to lists that do not exit and they will
    not be able to unsubscribe from lists that do not exist either.  Users
    who are already subscribed can not subscribe again, and users who have
    not subscribed can not un-subscribe.

  * FOOL PROOF SEAMLESS POINTER FILE.
    Lserv makes use of the NETWORK field in WildCay! messages to differen-
    tiate between processed and unprocessed messages.  Lserv  *will* *not*
    reprocess processed messagers eliminating the need for an "MPF" or Msg
    Pointer File.  However, (as I noticed in the beta release) this can be
    quite horrible with LARGE e-mail conferences, so, Lserv uses a Message
    Pointer File even though it does not need it,so it does not go through
    the entire message base again each time.  Since Lserv does not re-pro-
    cess processed messages, you can freely run wcPACK  without  having to
    worry about all messages being processed and sent again.  If Lserv de-
    tects that the conference's highest message is below the message numb.
    mentioned in the MPF,it will reset this to zero, meaning that, the MPF
    is seamless, fool proof, and practically INVISIBLE.

  * CONTINUOUS MODE.
    Lserv can be set to loop continuously without stopping,  searching for
    un-processed messages.  This way, you can dedicate an entire node just
    for Lserv, giving all new list and listserv messages instant handling.

  * LIST NAME FROM FIELD.
    Lserv will place the list name in the from field of all messages being
    sent to subscribers.  This allows easy replying.  It also supplies the
    name of the material originator.

  * CUSTOMIZABLE .SIG FILE.
    You can define customizable  text that is sent with each list message.

  * GET REQUESTS
    Each listname can have it's own directory, and users can request files
    from this directory to be sent back UUencoded.  Note though, that this
    does NOT use wcGATE's UUencode feature, so as to prevent the same file
    being attached over and over again to different messages.   You *must*
    have the UUENCODE.EXE program in your path for this to work.

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Changes from Previous Versions
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v0.99 - First beta release.
      * Made some nifty display screens.  ;)
      * Fixed the prob where listname would send a message to itself.
        The problem arised in copying a message to the listserver that
        began with TO: listname@whereever...  this line would be copied

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