From: IN%"[email protected]" "A Discussion of Listserv Database Search
Capability" 19-FEB-1994 16:32:15.40
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Subj: Global List Exchange (GLX) good for list searching too :-)
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From: "Peter M. Weiss +1 814 863 1843" <PMW1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Global List Exchange (GLX) good for list searching too :-)
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The GLX feature listname-SERVER@LISTSERV (aka LISTSERV.NET) works
for batch LDBASE list searching too. E.g., to search for contributions
by ERIC to the LDBASE-L list, e-mail the following to:
ldbase-l-server@listserv
/* --------------------- clip and save ---------------- */
//ListSrch JOB Echo=no
Database Search DD=Rules f=mail
//Rules DD *
S * in ldbase-l where sender contains eric
index
/*
// EOJ
/* --------------------- clip and save ---------------- */
Appended is a previous announcement about this feature.
/Pete (pmw1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) -- co-owner INFOSYS, TQM-L, LDBASE-L, et -L
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Peter M. Weiss "The 'NET' never naps" +1 814 863 1843
31 Shields Bldg. -- Penn State Univ -- University Park, PA 16802-1202 USA
>>> Item number 2124, dated 93/08/19 19:38:46 -- ALL
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1993 19:38:46 +0200
Reply-To: LISTSERV list owners' forum <[email protected]>
Sender: LISTSERV list owners' forum <[email protected]>
From: Eric Thomas <[email protected]>
Subject: Global list exchange extended to -request and -server addresses
LISTSERV version 1.8a and LMail version 1.2a, when operating together,
extend the "global list exchange" support (also known as GLX) to the
listname-request pseudo-address, and to the new listname-server address.
Concretely, this means that you can write to the owners of any LISTSERV
list without having to know where it is located, with the usual
reservations about confidential lists and lists which are visible only to
local users. For instance, to send mail to the owners of the INFOVAX
list, you could write to '[email protected]' and the
message will be passed on to the LISTSERV that actually runs the list,
which will in turn forward it to the list owners. Note that owner-xxxx
requests are not forwarded as this mailbox is normally used only for
delivery errors. It is an anomaly to receive a delivery error report for
a list you are not hosting, unless it has just been deleted, and it would
not be appropriate to silently toss the hot potato to another LISTSERV.
The new listname-server convention can be used to send commands to the
LISTSERV hosting the list without having to know where the list is
located. While most commands are properly forwarded when sent to the
wrong server, certain commands like GET requests for material maintained
by the list owner are only available from servers which actually host the
list, and cannot be forwarded properly by the other servers as they only
represent a naming convention (that is, there is no way for LISTSERV@XYZ
to know that 'GET CBPD13 MINUTES' should be forwarded to the server that
hosts the CBPD-L list). So if you want to find out what was said this
month on the INFOXYZ list, to which you are not subscribed and whose
exact location you forgot, you can send mail to
[email protected] with a GET INFOXYZ LOG9307 command and the
file will be sent to you.
Another potentially interesting use of the -server convention is a means
to reach the list manager associated with a particular list without
having to know what flavour of software it is running (LISTSERV,
Mailbase, MAILSERV, Listprocessor, etc). This however might require
modifications to the other list managers, and some people will
undoubtedly object that it is not an Internet standard. I don't have time
to open this can of worms at the moment.
Eric
Capability" 19-FEB-1994 16:32:15.40
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Subj: Global List Exchange (GLX) good for list searching too :-)
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Date: Sat, 19 Feb 1994 16:28:00 EST
From: "Peter M. Weiss +1 814 863 1843" <PMW1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Global List Exchange (GLX) good for list searching too :-)
Sender: A Discussion of Listserv Database Search Capability
<[email protected]>
To: Multiple recipients of list LDBASE-L <[email protected]>
Reply-to: A Discussion of Listserv Database Search Capability
<[email protected]>
Message-id: <01H92RBCSSYC8ZDUX7@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
The GLX feature listname-SERVER@LISTSERV (aka LISTSERV.NET) works
for batch LDBASE list searching too. E.g., to search for contributions
by ERIC to the LDBASE-L list, e-mail the following to:
ldbase-l-server@listserv
/* --------------------- clip and save ---------------- */
//ListSrch JOB Echo=no
Database Search DD=Rules f=mail
//Rules DD *
S * in ldbase-l where sender contains eric
index
/*
// EOJ
/* --------------------- clip and save ---------------- */
Appended is a previous announcement about this feature.
/Pete (pmw1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) -- co-owner INFOSYS, TQM-L, LDBASE-L, et -L
--
Peter M. Weiss "The 'NET' never naps" +1 814 863 1843
31 Shields Bldg. -- Penn State Univ -- University Park, PA 16802-1202 USA
>>> Item number 2124, dated 93/08/19 19:38:46 -- ALL
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1993 19:38:46 +0200
Reply-To: LISTSERV list owners' forum <[email protected]>
Sender: LISTSERV list owners' forum <[email protected]>
From: Eric Thomas <[email protected]>
Subject: Global list exchange extended to -request and -server addresses
LISTSERV version 1.8a and LMail version 1.2a, when operating together,
extend the "global list exchange" support (also known as GLX) to the
listname-request pseudo-address, and to the new listname-server address.
Concretely, this means that you can write to the owners of any LISTSERV
list without having to know where it is located, with the usual
reservations about confidential lists and lists which are visible only to
local users. For instance, to send mail to the owners of the INFOVAX
list, you could write to '[email protected]' and the
message will be passed on to the LISTSERV that actually runs the list,
which will in turn forward it to the list owners. Note that owner-xxxx
requests are not forwarded as this mailbox is normally used only for
delivery errors. It is an anomaly to receive a delivery error report for
a list you are not hosting, unless it has just been deleted, and it would
not be appropriate to silently toss the hot potato to another LISTSERV.
The new listname-server convention can be used to send commands to the
LISTSERV hosting the list without having to know where the list is
located. While most commands are properly forwarded when sent to the
wrong server, certain commands like GET requests for material maintained
by the list owner are only available from servers which actually host the
list, and cannot be forwarded properly by the other servers as they only
represent a naming convention (that is, there is no way for LISTSERV@XYZ
to know that 'GET CBPD13 MINUTES' should be forwarded to the server that
hosts the CBPD-L list). So if you want to find out what was said this
month on the INFOXYZ list, to which you are not subscribed and whose
exact location you forgot, you can send mail to
[email protected] with a GET INFOXYZ LOG9307 command and the
file will be sent to you.
Another potentially interesting use of the -server convention is a means
to reach the list manager associated with a particular list without
having to know what flavour of software it is running (LISTSERV,
Mailbase, MAILSERV, Listprocessor, etc). This however might require
modifications to the other list managers, and some people will
undoubtedly object that it is not an Internet standard. I don't have time
to open this can of worms at the moment.
Eric