[consulting] Current state of newsletter systems

[Rob Barreca]

I've used simplenews before and the functionality is great. But to keep 
the module moving forward, it needed an audit.
> 1) Newsletter: no reply by the subscribers to the group.
> 2) Mailing list: replies to all subscribers through the list.
Right. So I meant to have said I'm also working on a complete rewrite of 
the simplenews_roles module which will allow syncing a newsletter 
subscription list with users in particular roles.

Thanks,

Rob Roy Barreca
Founder and COO
Electronic Insight Corporation
http://www.electronicinsight.com
rob at electronicinsight.com



Gerhard Killesreiter wrote:
> Rob Barreca wrote:
>   
>> I'm currently working on a complete audit of simplenews as the code is 
>> pretty hairy. FAPI wasn't being properly used, there was no clean API, 
>> lots of code style errors, namespace conflicts ("sn_"), convoluted 
>> variable names/logic, etc. (Sorry if I'm offending anyone here, don't 
>> mean to be.)
>>
>> I'm also working on a complete rewrite of the simplenews_roles module 
>> which will allow syncing a mailing list with users in particular roles.
>>     
>
> Please get your terminology right:
>
> 1) Newsletter: no reply by the subscribers to the group.
> 2) Mailing list: replies to all subscribers through the list.
>
> Simplenews does a rather good job on drupal.org. We use it to mail the 
> security and other announcements to in total 10k subscribers.
>
> Cheers,
> 	Gerhard
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