As with the standardized messages, the conditions under which an archive is sent out are under your control. Behind the scenes, the program is a delight to administer. GroupMaster automatically reports membership requests and bad addresses. It produces dandy reports on membership statistics and traffic. Other programs do this, too, but GroupMaster doesn't demand that you be a mailing list guru.
System requirements are modest.
GroupMaster will run as an application under Microsoft Windows 95 or Windows NT, but for reliability, you should run it as a service under NT 4.0 Service Pack 3 or higher. The program worked extraordinarily well on Win95 and as a service under NT 4.0. There were some small bugs on the Win95 shakedown cruise, most of them easy to fix. The only persistent problem was that, running with AltaVista Mail Server 97, the combination of servers refused to date and time-stamp messages. Revnet is working on this and probably will have fixed it by press time.