Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Announcement: TULP 4.0.0 (mailing list manager) for Unix
Summary: TULP is a listserv-like application running on Unix stations

            The Unix Listmanager Program - TULP

                 Version 4.0.0 - July 1994
          

TULP is a mailing-lists manager.  It implements a subset of the commands of
the well known LISTSERV, used mainly in the Bitnet world.  It can  also  be
used, in a very limited manner, as a mail-server for text archives.

This version brings many improvements to the 3 released by the end of 1992.

TULP allows an easy management of mailing-lists.  Once their are created by
the   TULP-manager,  users  can  subscribe,   signoff,  get  the   list  of
subscribers, or retrieve  past articles  by sending mail  to  an  automatic
sofware,  typically  listserv@node.dom.ain.  The  implemented commands  are
really  close  to  the  syntax  used  on  Bitnet-Listserv  running  on  IBM
mainframes.  Note  that  there is  *no*  connection  between  the  original
listserv running on IBM mainframes and TULP.

Each list can have several attributes:

+ Multiple list status: public, private, moderated.

+ List of owners an an editor.

+ Mutliple "review" status: public, private, owners.

+ Multiple subscription schemes: public, owners, closed.

+ Messages numbering (optional).

+ Messages archival (on a monthly basis, optional).

+ Filtering of (some) administrative requests sent to the lists instead of the
  administrative address [if you have Perl on your system].


TULP  is interfaced with  the Sendmail MTA  in the  released version but it
should also be easily adaptable to other mail transport agents.

TULP has successfully been tested and  is currently  already in  production
under following systems:

        AIX 3.1 & 3.2
	A/UX 3
        HP-UX 8.0
        SunOS 4.1
        SVR4 3.0

TULP is distributed under the GNU General Public License.

The package  is available  by anonymous  ftp  at  several  places.  If  you
decide  to  put the  package and  its updates  available by  anonymous ftp, 
please drop me a note so that I can add your site name to the documentation.

--- Author's sites -------------------------------------------------

Anonymous ftp to ftp.univ-lyon1.fr 		[134.214.100.25]
   /pub/unix/mail/list-servers/tulp/tulp-X.Y.Z.tar.gz

Where X Y and Z represent the version number (4.0.0 currently).

If you don't have anonymous ftp access you can retrieve the package through
e-mail by sending the following command to <ftpmail@grasp.insa-lyon.fr>:

open
[mime]
get pub/unix/mail/list-servers/tulp/tulp-X.Y.Z.tar.gz
quit

An uuencoded (or MIME compliant) file will  be sent to you.  Note that the 
command must be in the body of your message, not in the subject.

If you wish  to be  informed of releases of new versions or patches you may 
subscribe  to  the  "tulp-dist"  mailing  list.  To  do  so,  send  a  mail 
to <listserv@grasp.insa-lyon.fr> with a command like:

sub tulp-dist Firstname Lastname

The  command must not be in the  subject of the mail but in the body of the 
message.  This list will only be informed of new released, discussion about
about TULP goes to the list described below.

A discussion list for TULP and listservs for  Unix in general  also exists.
The list  name  is  <listnix@grasp.insa-lyon.fr>.  If  you wish to  join,
commands must be sent to listserv@grasp.insa-lyon.fr:

Example:
SUB listnix Chris Wolfhugel

Any questions/comments are welcome by mail or to the list.

Kimmo Suominen   <Kimmo.Suominen@lut.fi>
Chris Wolfhugel  <Christophe.Wolfhugel@univ-lyon1.fr>
