BMW 5.0

Section-Update: 28 Nov 1994

BMW, the Black Marble Wombat, is a simple MLM written in Perl. It was developed by Clay Luther of Monsta Incorporated bmw@gojira.monsta.com to run some lists on gaming.

Unusual features

Digests are requested through a separate subscribe command (called DIGEST, logically enough). Subscribing to a list digest simultaneously unsubscribes a user from the regular list; to unsubscribe once he or she is on the digest list, the user uses the UNDIGEST command.

Features for users

BMW optionally archives messages on a monthly basis. Beyond that, it's pretty minimalist: available user features are automatic subscription and unsubscription, archive sending and listing, and list review.

Features for administrators

Mailing lists and other information resources

System requirements

A Unix system with a recent version of Perl.

Cost and licensing

BMW's source code is available free for use, re-use, and modification under the GNU Copyleft.

How to get it

Source code is at ftp://gojira.monsta.com/pub/src/