<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Nov 14, 2006, at 7:17 PM, AjK wrote:</DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Send: depends on CiviCRM for a bunch of tracking features.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Hmmm...might actually require some sort of "Mail" or something as</DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">well....I forget.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Uses CiviCRM, not worth mentioning then unless you want that installed too,</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">just to send a page? ;)</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>Woah there, Tex! There's a big difference between a module that supports CiviCRM and one that depends on it. When CiviCRM is installed, send will create a new user (if necessary) for both the sender and the recipient, and then log an action for each. When CiviCRM is not installed, it doesn't do that.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Send depends on Mime Mail to convert the node's HTML into a valid multi-part email. Mime Mail's output is themeable, and when left to its own devices it uses your theme's style sheets. Rather than attempting to construct valid messages on a one-off basis, send leverages Mime Mail's code, which is reusable by other modules. It's more efficient this way, and you can maintain consistent branding while respecting users' plain-text/html email preferences.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I wrote send because I wanted a consistent way to send nodes from the site for various reasons. For example, the News module extends send by form_altering the recipient into a selection of mailing lists. Petition or letter to the editor modules could do similar. Send keeps track of which nodes are sent, by whom, and by which module. You could use this data to determine your most active senders and most frequently-sent nodes across all participating modules. And, of course, it would all get tracked in CiviCRM, if you're into that sort of thing :)</DIV><BR><DIV> <DIV>Allie Micka</DIV><DIV>pajunas interactive, inc.</DIV><DIV><A href="http://www.pajunas.com">http://www.pajunas.com</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>scalable web hosting and open source strategies</DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Courier New" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Courier New"></FONT></P> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>