Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A computer program that automatically handles subscription requests and e-mail delivery for members of a discussion group.
- noun A file server that is used in the management of e-mail for members of a discussion group.
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- noun computing A
server thatdistributes messages to members of ane-mail list.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The listserver is 99% Spanish, but Rafael, the leader, and a very nice guy, speaks excellent English.
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The listserver is 99% Spanish, but Rafael, the leader, and a very nice guy, speaks excellent English.
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The listserver is 99% Spanish, but Rafael, the leader, and a very nice guy, speaks excellent English.
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The listserver is 99% Spanish, but Rafael, the leader, and a very nice guy, speaks excellent English.
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SF Canada exists primarily as a listserver which is pretty active, so I'm reading messages from, and occasionally posting messages to, other Canadian SF writers almost every day.
Another Lost in Translation blurb Edward Willett 2006
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However, where mailing lists are often maintained by a person, all Bitnet discussion groups are automated -- you subscribe to them through messages to a "listserver" computer.
The Big Dummies' Guide to the Internet Version 2.0 : Chapter 5: Mailing Lists and Bitnet 1994
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A writers 'listserver I was on recently had a long discussion about semicolons, with some writers proclaiming that semicolons had no place in fiction.
Archive 2006-09-03 Edward Willett 2006
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I'm not sure where the story originated (I got it from a listserver post), but it sounds exciting:
Archive 2006-02-19 Edward Willett 2006
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A writers 'listserver I was on recently had a long discussion about semicolons, with some writers proclaiming that semicolons had no place in fiction.
The first sentence I wrote today (with a segue into a rant on punctuation) Edward Willett 2006
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I'm not sure where the story originated (I got it from a listserver post), but it sounds exciting:
Real science fiction on TV at last? Edward Willett 2006
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