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Definition of "listserver" [listserver]

  • A file server that is used in the management of e-mail for members of a discussion group. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "listserver" in a sentence
  • "The listserver is 99% Spanish, but Rafael, the leader, and a very nice guy, speaks excellent English."
  • "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."
  • "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."
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