[DUG-TO] News / MLM / Send modules

[Ben Smith Lea]

So it will! As the RelatedContent module page claims:

"In conjunction with the Simplenews module, RelatedContent can be used
to compile newsletters out of already existing nodes."

That sounds like what I was looking for alright.

Thanks Alan.

On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Alan Dixon <alan.g.dixon at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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