[DUG-TO] News / MLM / Send modules

[Alan Dixon]

i think that simplenews + relatedcontent will do what you want.

 - Alan

On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Ben Smith Lea <systems at bikeunion.to> wrote:
> 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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