<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>I'll make it super easy .... Capture the ip durning registration then do a look up on a geolocation db .....</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Cheers</div><div>Trevor<br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On Mar 10, 2008, at 3:17 AM, "Michael Thorne" <<a href="mailto:thorne.michael@gmail.com">thorne.michael@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Does anyone know what the best/simplest way to target newsletters to a specific geographical area is?<br><br>Do I need to collect the geogrphical data in user profile fields and then create the lists from that?<br><br>Or is there a simpler method - perhaps a newsletter listserver provider who can capture this location information when a user signs up and can later send to those users in a designated geographical area.<br>
<br>Any thoughts will be much appreciated. Thanks<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 8, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Erik Stielstra <<a href="mailto:info@erikstielstra.nl"><a href="mailto:info@erikstielstra.nl">info@erikstielstra.nl</a></a>> wrote:<br>
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On 7 feb 2008, at 15:21, Philippe Jadin wrote:<br>
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> We use phplist (<a href="http://www.phplist.com/" target="_blank"><a href="http://www.phplist.com/">http://www.phplist.com/</a></a>), and are quite happy with it.<br>
> It handles bounces and can be configured to send emails at a slower<br>
> pace (x mails per hour).<br>
><br>
> We send a weekly newsletter to 5.000 persons without trouble. It's the<br>
> only php based solution that I found to be up to the task. There is<br>
> very little Drupal integration, but a module could be written to<br>
> integrate it better with Drupal.<br>
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</div>A Drupal integration for PHP-list exists: <a href="http://drupal.org/project/phplist" target="_blank"><a href="http://drupal.org/project/phplist">http://drupal.org/project/phplist</a></a><br>
But given the comment at the start of its project page is may not be<br>
for long:<br>
"Given that Massmailer recently been updated for Drupal 5 I am<br>
thinking of abandoning this project. If anyone has any persausive<br>
arguments for or against this proposition, I would be very pleased to<br>
hear them !"<br>
<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
<font color="#888888">Erik Stielstra<br>
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