LISTSERV
Sign in to saveThe term Listserv (styled by the registered trademark licensee, L-Soft International, Inc., as LISTSERV) has been used to refer to electronic mailing list software applications in general, but is more properly applied to a few early instances of such software, which allows a sender to send one email to a list, which then transparently sends it on to the addresses of the subscribers to the list.
Key facts
- Software.name
- Listserv
- Software.author
- Éric Thomas
- Software.latest release version
- LISTSERV 17.5
- Software.platform
- Cross-platform
- Software.genre
- Mailing lists
- Software.license
- Proprietary
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.lsoft.com/products/listserv.asp
- Has use
- electronic mailing list
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- P13411
- Angela Merkel
- publication date
- 1986-00-00
- native label
- LISTSERV
- operating system
- Solaris
- software version identifier
- LISTSERV 17.5
- copyright license
- proprietary license
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Automated mailing list management
- Trademark
- Security
- Editions
- Supported operating systems
- See also
- References
- External links
The term Listserv (styled by the registered trademark licensee, L-Soft International, Inc., as LISTSERV) has been used to refer to electronic mailing list software applications in general, but is more properly applied to a few early instances of such software, which allows a sender to send one email to a list, which then transparently sends it on to the addresses of the subscribers to the list.
The original Listserv software, the Bitnic Listserv (also known as BITNIC LISTSERV) (1984–1986), allowed mailing lists to be implemented on IBM VM mainframes and was developed by Ira Fuchs, Daniel Oberst, and Ricky Hernandez in 1984. This mailing list service was known as Listserv@Bitnic (also known as LISTSERV@BITNIC) and quickly became a key service on the BITNET network. It provided functionality similar to a UNIX Sendmail alias and, as with Sendmail, subscriptions were managed manually.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “LISTSERV” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.