Subject: Re: listserv hosed? [Was: Fwd: nanog.org mailing list memberships reminder] Date: Fri, Feb 02, 2018 at 06:30:20AM -0500 Quoting Rich Kulawiec (rsk@gsp.org):
1. It's not a listserv. It's a mailing list. ListServ is obsolete, expensive, closed-source garbage software used exclusively by people who don't know any better and like to waste their money.
Butbutbut! A VM/370 app that still does all internal processing in EBCDIC, even on POSIX OSes[0], with almost-ascii config files, and that ran very well on VMS? What is there not to love? /Måns, former sysop at SEGATE.SUNET.SE -- Måns Nilsson primary/secondary/besserwisser/machina MN-1334-RIPE SA0XLR +46 705 989668 What's the MATTER Sid? ... Is your BEVERAGE unsatisfactory? [0] Eric Thomas, mr LISTSERV himself, told me this when we were migrating that large LISTSERV one dark night 17 years ago.