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VENDOR: Lyris email list server for OS/2
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Buckman)
Wed Mar 19 18:27:19 1997
To: os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU
Date: 19 Mar 1997 18:47:47 GMT
From: jbuckman@shelby.com (John Buckman)
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Reply-to: jbuckman@shelby.com
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Announcing LYRIS:
The Next Generation of Internet Email Lists
Walter Shelby Group has released what is being hailed as the "next generation"
Internet email list server.
Lyris Email List Server is a program for running email mailing lists on the
Internet. A mailing list is a group of people who receive electronic mail as a
group. These lists are frequently used for making announcements, having open
discussions, moderating forums, auto-responders, and more.
Overview
What makes Lyris innovative is its simplicity of use, especially through its
web interface and automatic error-mail handling. For years the major complaint
about email list servers has been the difficulty of running and administering
lists. Lyris approaches all of these tasks differently, with the user in mind.
John Buckman, a senior developer at Walter Shelby Group, explains, "There is
no reason everyone running a list should have to become a technical expert in
the intricacies of email. That's what a good program should do for you. We
designed Lyris for anyone to use." While Lyris provides ease-of-use for the
novice, it also offers a wide range of powerful tools for experienced and/or
technical users such as database customization.
Features
Everything you can do with Lyris, you can do with your web browser using
Lyris' extensive World-Wide-Web interface. Members can choose to receive
messages by email, or read them on the web.
Lyris is secure: all administrative functions are password protected.
Different security roles (list admin, site admin, server admin) to allow you
to delegate rights and responsibilities. Also, members can password-protect
their accounts.
Lyris has an extremely fast built-in mail engine that can deliver hundreds of
messages per minute. The built-in ultra-high-performance database engine
provides thousands of transactions per second.
Lyris' C++ based multi-threaded design was built with performance as the top
priority. One of Lyris' strengths is automatic email error detection; members
and administrators are completely protected from "error mail". A built in
mailer provides unprecedented error detection.
Every message to a mailing list is saved and indexed in the mailing list
archives and can be quickly text searched.
The Lyris web interface works with all web browsers. All files are fully cross
platform and all features are available on all supported platforms. Lyris
supports all major email command syntaxes (eg: subscribing & unsubscribing) so
that your users do not have to learn new commands. Lyris accepts list server
email at all the major email addresses.
Lyris is currently available for OS/2, Windows 95 and Windows NT. Other
platforms such as Solaris, Macintosh, Be, Irix and Linux will be available
soon.
Complete information is available at the Lyris Home Page, located at:
http://www.lyris.com/
The Walter Shelby Group home page is located at http://www.shelby.com
John Buckman <jbuckman@shelby.com>
Shelby Group Ltd., http://www.shelby.com/
Developers of Lyris Email List Server
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