Hi,
I had several other people who also wanted to know the answer, I found
it via some digging. I did a whois on eit.com and that lead me to the
admin. contact for the domain who sent me the below form reply email.
The link to hypermail is:
http://www.landfield.com/hypermail/ .
Cheers,
Douglas
Here is the email:
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douglas_at_gpc.peachnet.edu writes:
> Hi,
>
> I was recently try to find hypermail on www.eit.com, as it preivously
> was. Unfortunately, it does not appear that the site exist? I did a
> whois on eit.com and found you as the admin. contact. Could you help
> me either find Kevin Hughes (who did hypermail) or where hypermail
> is now currently kept?
>
> Thanks for any help,
> Cheers,
> Douglas
>
The author is sorry to have to send you this form letter,
and apologizes for it! But he simply no longer has the time to maintain
his various older software projects.
In 1997 VeriFone/Hewlett-Packard dissolved EIT (Enterprise
Integration Technologies). The domain name was taken by a government
contracting firm also called EIT, which had a trademark on the name
long before the eit.com of 1991.
-- (cut here)
Thank you for your interest in hypermail! Included below are
the answers to some common questions about this software.
1) What is the licensing status of hypermail?
Hewlett-Packard (their legal owner) has put it
under the GNU license, a widely used "free software"
license. This means that you can use and modify the
source code as long as you make your changes publically
available and do not charge for their use (although, under
GNU, you can charge for their distribution).
More details are available at
http://www.fsf.org/ and
http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/gpl.html.
2) I have a problem/question/patch/port for hypermail.
"Official" development and support for hypermail is now
graciously being provided by Kent Landfield on his own time.
He has updated hypermail a bit and has fixed many bugs that
existed in the 1.02 version. You can now access the
documentation and distribution at
http://www.landfield.com/hypermail/.
People have indeed ported hypermail to DOS, Windows 95,
and Windows NT (but not Java ...yet). Unfortunately, the
information as to who actually did this free work, and the
source to these ports, has been lost in time. :( If you have
information about such a port and/or would like to contribute,
please send your things to Kent and he will likely make them
available via his site.
3) Will hypermail run on my system?
Hypermail can compile and run as-is on most of the more
popular UNIX systems today. There is no version for the
Macintosh, however. For information on Windows-based versions,
please read the answer to question #2 above. If you're not
sure if hypermail will run on your UNIX system, try compiling
it and see!
4) Is there a mailing list for hypermail?
Kent says:
"I've set up a hypermail development mailing list to act
as a forum for us to discuss enhancements, bugs, etc.
The list is a majordomo-based mailing list. To subscribe send a
message to majordomo_at_landfield.com with "subscribe hypermail"
(minus the quotes) as the body of the message. The Subject: line
is ignored.
The list's submission address is hypermail_at_landfield.com."
Happy hypermailing,
-- Kevin
--
Kevin Hughes * kevinh_at_veosystems.com * kev_at_kevcom.com * www.kevcom.com/~kev
Veo Hypermedia Engineer * Duty now for the future!
--
Matt Ranney - mjr_at_ranney.com
Let's not let the students run the High School.
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