newsletter APP NOT listserve

[Jean-Paul Natola]

Ideally, stats,  subscribe, unsubscribe, and let the person in charge have
the ability to  be able to select the recipients for a particular letter
based on a field or combination of two fields. i.e.  send to all contacts
that are "doctors"  or send to all contacts that are "doctors" and are in the
"HIV" prevention program- upload lists can be csv txt excel  doesnt really
matter-

GUI would be great for managing contacts because if the the contacts address
changes i want the user to be able to login and change his address or phone
etc...







Jean-Paul Natola
Network Administrator
Information Technology
Family Care International
588 Broadway Suite 503
New York, NY 10012
Phone:212-941-5300 xt 36
Fax:  212-941-5563
Mailto: Jnatola at Familycareintl.org



-----Original Message-----
From: Vince Sabio [mailto:tasteless at mac.com]
Sent: Thu 2/5/2009 20:20
To: Jean-Paul Natola
Subject: Re: newsletter APP NOT listserve
 
** At 09:31 -0500 on 02/05/2009, Jean-Paul Natola wrote:

>Can anyone recommend a newsletter application , preferably where I can just
>have an ordinary user login via a webpage , upload a file/message/ and click
>send?

What are the requirements/characteristics of the "newsletter app" 
you're looking for? Does it need to have stats/campaign tracking? Is 
a web interface required, or can the user simply format and send his 
e-mail message via e-mail to the server? Does it need to provide the 
ability for users to subscribe and unsubscribe themselves? How will 
the newsletter owner upload his list? What format will (should?) the 
list be in when he uploads it? How large will the lists be? If they 
are small enough, then most mail clients should be able to provide 
the basic functionality of sending a newsletter to a list.

>I was playing with mailman , but that seems to be a list serve app.

The proper term is "list server," so as not to confuse with 
"Listserv," which is a copyrighted product (developed by Eric Thomas 
and L-Soft).

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