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``` Date: Fri, 18 Mar 94 15:38:14 EST From: Marco Hernandez To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: CREN Announces Acquisition of UNIX(TM) TCP/IP List Manager CREN is pleased to announce that it has acquired ownership rights to the Unix(TM)-TCP/IP list management and file distribution software developed by Anastasios Kotsikonas ("Tasos") and known as "ListProcessor" and "ListProc". List managers are essential for supporting global scholarly discussion and collaboration over the Internet and for distributing materials in electronic formats. Version 6.0c of ListProc is presently being used at more than 320 sites throughout the world to manage some 4500 electronic mailing lists. Testing and production experience by CREN and others has proved that ListProc, when used with the ZMAILER Mail Transfer Agent (available at no cost from the University of Toronto via anonymous ftp at cs.toronto.edu in /pub/zmailer.tar), can easily support active lists with several thousand subscribers on even a small Unix host. or example, CREN is currently hosting 11 public lists and sending an average of 20,000 pieces of SMTP mail daily, over 2 Megabytes per day, on a small Unix processor. EDUCOM's EDUPAGE list has close to 12,000 subscribers and takes around an hour for distribution. Alternatively, other mail transfer agents are also supported.

CREN in partnership with Tasos is developing enhanced versions of this software. The first release of the CREN version of ListProcessor is scheduled to be available in the June 1994 time frame. A later release scheduled for the end of 1994 will include the capability of hierarchically distributing list postings and other enhancements not available in the first release. CREN will thereafter continue to improve and develop this software in support of its strategic plan, adding new capabilities as requirements and standards evolve. Version 6.0c (the current version) of ListProc will remain available at no cost for non-commercial use but all further development of this software will be owned and licensed by CREN.

CREN will provide each of its non-profit members one free copy of each of these two releases of its ListProcessor software (for use on a single computer of any size), and additional copies will be priced to encourage departmental use. CREN's international Cooperating Networks that are willing to provide support to their member organizations for CREN's ListProcessor will be able to arrange with CREN to similarly make available a single free copy of the first and second release of this software for each of their non-profit educational member organizations, and to license additional copies for these member organizations.

For-profit CREN members and organizations that are neither CREN members nor members of participating Cooperative Networks will also be able to license ListProcessor at very competitive fees that will be announced at the time of release of the CREN versions. Several popular implementations of Unix will be supported.

In addition to development of the ListProcessor server, CREN expects to contract for the development of Mac and Windows-based list management client software. That software will be a part of CREN's "plug and play" client software suite and will be designed to facilitate the use of the server for list subscription, unsubscription, information requests, and other list-management functions required of list owners and list initiators. The "plug and play" initiative is discussed in the CREN strategic plan described in the CREN Brochure and newsletters available via ftp or Gopher from info.cren.net. CREN is also pursuing plans that will enable the distribution of scholarly materials such as electronic journals in multimedia formats.

Continuing support for the use of this software will be provided electronically by CREN for its members and other organizations that license the software from CREN. Cooperating Networks are responsible for supporting the use of the software by their member organizations. Feedback from all users of the software, on their requirements, will be encouraged by CREN as part of the continuing development process.

The CREN versions are being developed consistent with the ideas published last fall in CREN's RFP for list-management software (available from info.cren.net via Gopher and ftp). CREN will actively cooperate with the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in the development of open Internet standards leading to improvements in the performance and functionality of this and related software.

CREN will also develop improved documentation for users, list owners, and installers/managers of the software.

Ken King Executive Director, CREN

Jim Conklin Director, BITNET/CREN Network Information Center ```

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