LISTSERV at Work L-Soft
Issue 3, 2009
    In This Issue:

L-Soft Celebrates 15th Anniversary
LISTSERV Choice Awards: ICORS
L-Soft's New Offices in Sweden
World Wide Words Receives Award
Tech Tip: LISTSERV
Tech Tip: LISTSERV Maestro


LISTSERV at Work Editorial Note

Welcome to the third LISTSERV at Work newsletter of 2009, which invites readers to celebrate L-Soft's 15th anniversary, read the exciting announcement of this year's LISTSERV Choice Awards Grand Prize Winner, learn about a specially created award and its recipient and enjoy a photographic tour of the new L-Soft offices in Stockholm, Sweden. Thank you for subscribing to LISTSERV at Work, and we welcome you to forward this newsletter to friends and associates who might also enjoy it.

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L-Soft Celebrates 15th Anniversary

By L-Soft Staff

L-Soft Celebrates 15th Anniversary

An anniversary is a birthday of sorts, a time for reflection and celebration, and we welcome you to join us in commemorating L-Soft's 15th.

L-Soft's journey as a company began in 1994 when Eric Thomas, who invented LISTSERV in 1986, in his own words "founded L-Soft with $3,000 and a laptop in order to further develop LISTSERV."

We would like to thank all LISTSERV at Work readers and our thousands of customers around the world and hope to earn the opportunity to provide our world-class LISTSERV® brand solutions to readers who are not currently using them.

We hope you will enjoy exploring our new interactive tools and special offers, all with a sharp focus on what L-Soft's products enable organizations and people to do: Communicate, Collaborate and Connect.

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LISTSERV Choice Awards Grand Prize Winner: ICORS

By L-Soft Staff

LISTSERV Choice Awards Grand Prize Winner: ICORS

An L-Soft jury led by Founder and CEO Eric Thomas has selected ICORS to receive the Grand Prize in the 2008-09 competition. ICORS is a non-profit, all volunteer, 501(c)(3) charity dedicated to assisting individuals and groups that offer support, information and community to people in need, including individuals affected by disability, family issues, health issues and other similar needs. ICORS accomplishes its mission by providing technical assistance and services to list owners at hundreds of health and social service organizations to support the organizations' work with individuals in need.

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L-Soft's New Offices in Sweden: A Photographic Tour

By L-Soft Staff

L-Soft's New Offices in Sweden: A Photographic Tour

L-Soft has moved to new, modern and larger offices in Stockholm, Sweden. The Stockholm office will serve as the new home for L-Soft's headquarters with the research and development, sales and marketing departments in daily contact with L-Soft's offices and telecommuters in Europe, the United States and Australia. The office is located in a white, elegant and completely renovated commercial building from the 1960s. As the first tenant in the new space, L-Soft has participated in shaping both the floor plan and the interior design from the start.

Come and take a sightseeing tour of Stockholm from an L-Soft perspective.

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Eric Thomas Creates Award for World Wide Words
In Celebration of L-Soft's 15th Anniversary

By L-Soft Staff

L-Soft Founder and CEO Eric Thomas has chosen to honor World Wide Words with the 2008-09 Timeless Award, presented in commemoration of L-Soft's 15th Anniversary. This award was specially created for World Wide Words, which publishes a weekly e-magazine run on LISTSERV software featuring useful and interesting information on "international English from a British viewpoint" by Michael Quinion. It is distributed to some 30,000 English speakers worldwide via email in addition to 20,000 more who read the e-magazine through the separate RSS service.

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Tech Tip: LISTSERV

LISTSERV Tech Tip

Q: How can I maximize security for my LISTSERV installation or for individual LISTSERV lists?

Answer by Ben Parker
Chief Corporate Consultant, L-Soft

From time to time a question arises about how to increase security for a LISTSERV installation or for individual LISTSERV lists. The basic means for improving security is to deny access to any information that might be used by unscrupulous persons to attack your server or your list.

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Tech Tip: LISTSERV Maestro

LISTSERV Maestro Tech Tip

Q: Is it possible to add a "timestamp" profile field to a dataset that is updated whenever any of the other profile fields are changed?

Answer by Johannes Hubert and Holly Taylor
LISTSERV Maestro Project Manager and Technical Writer,
L-Soft

For many data administrators, keeping track of their subscribers' data and its accuracy is a major concern. Simply having a way to keep track of the last date and time that a specific record was updated would be beneficiary. Because of this need, LISTSERV Maestro 4.0-5 and later has made it possible for you to create a "timestamp" that helps you keep your subscriber information up-to-date. This timestamp is created by adding a special derivation rule formula to a derived profile field.

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