Listserv
| LISTSERV | |
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| developer | L-Soft international, Inc. |
| Publishing year | 1986 |
| Current version | 17.0 (July 9, 2019) |
| category | Mailing list software |
| License | proprietary |
| http://www.lsoft.se/de/listserv.asp | |
LISTSERV is an application program for managing mailing lists , which was originally developed in the mid- 1980s for the US computer network BITNET . LISTSERV was developed by Eric Thomas in 1986 and was the very first software for mailing list management.
LISTSERV originally ran on IBM - mainframe computers under the operating system VM (Virtual Machine) and used IBM-specific communication protocols such RSCS (Remote Spooling Communications Subsystem). However, it was ported to other operating system platforms and made suitable for use on the Internet by using the TCP / IP communication protocols .
LISTSERV is now a registered trademark of L-Soft, which has been developing and selling this software package with additional software solutions since 1994.
More than 400,000 mailing lists are currently managed with LISTSERV. Of these, more than 14% are public.
Web links
- Homepage of L-Soft (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ What's New in LISTSERV® Version 17.0 (PDF file, 384 kB, accessed on August 29, 2019)
- ↑ CATALIST , the official catalog of LISTSERV lists