[Air-l] "listserve"

[Paul Jones]

Actually this comes from an IBM Mainframe restruction. Eric Thomas who 
wrote Listserv wrote it as a VM application back in 1986. The application 
was really BITNET-centric and so limited by IBM coding restrictions.

For Eric's version of history see:
http://www.lsoft.com/corporate/history_listserv.asp


On Tue, 29 May 2007, Alex -Vipowernet wrote:

+In the DOS era - before Windows - all file names were 8 characters long, 
+so listserve.exe would have been truncated to listserv.exe. Probably the 
+reason it is 8 characters long.  Who did it? Who wrote it? No idea...
+
+Alex Randall - survivor of DOS 1.0 in 1981... 
+
+  ----- Original Message ----- 
+  From: Ellis Godard 
+  To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org 
+  Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 12:02 AM
+  Subject: [Air-l] "listserve"
+
+
+  I may have asked this before (I know I've at least raised the issue
+  elsewhere, perhaps not here), but anyone how or when mailing lists became
+  "listserves"? The etymological origin is probably ListServ (with MajorDomo,
+  one of the leading mailing list software programs) and "list server", that
+  beast which manages mailing lists. Was the adoption vague and gradual, or is
+  there someone to whom blame (credit?) can be pinned?
+
+  -eg
+
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