[DUG-TO] News / MLM / Send modules

[Ben Smith Lea]

Thanks everyone. The site in question is D5.

The attraction of News is that a busy, non-technical site admin can
create content (e.g. Story nodes) and then aggregate them easily into
an email message of teasers on a regular basis ... as a newsletter. It
integrates everything nicely into the site with very little extra work
for the site admin.

With Simplenews this can all be done, but with a lot of document
creation on the part of the user, manually copying teaser content and
creating links to story nodes. This is all stuff which is done for
free by drupal core. So that was the attraction of News.

However, if it is orphaned I will not want to recommend it.

I will check out Mass Contact.

On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Ashok Modi <btmash at gmail.com> wrote:
> For one of the sites I had worked on, I had looked into the News Module and
> ultimately went with the Simplenews Module (+ some site specific alterations
> to get the intended behaviour) - it is well maintained and has a fair amount
> of flexibility.
>
> What do you need the particular module to be able to do with respect to
> Newsletters?
>
> -Ashok
>
> On 9-Feb-09, at 1:08 PM, Ben Smith Lea wrote:
>
>> Does anyone on this list use the News module ( which requires MLM and
>> Send )? I like the look of it as an alternative to SimpleNews,
>> especially from the site user's point of view. However I have not
>> found much information about system requirements and configuration.
>>
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>> Toronto Cyclists Union
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