[consulting] What do you use for your email newsletters?

[tmckeown]

I'll make it super easy .... Capture the ip durning registration then  
do a look up on a geolocation db .....

Cheers
Trevor

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On Mar 10, 2008, at 3:17 AM, "Michael Thorne"  
<thorne.michael at gmail.com> wrote:

> Does anyone know what the best/simplest way to target newsletters to  
> a specific geographical area is?
>
> Do I need to collect the geogrphical data in user profile fields and  
> then create the lists from that?
>
> 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.
>
> Any thoughts will be much appreciated.  Thanks
>
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 8, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Erik Stielstra  
> <info at erikstielstra.nl> wrote:
>
> On 7 feb 2008, at 15:21, Philippe Jadin wrote:
>
> > We use phplist (http://www.phplist.com/), and are quite happy with  
> it.
> > It handles bounces and can be configured to send emails at a slower
> > pace (x mails per hour).
> >
> > We send a weekly newsletter to 5.000 persons without trouble. It's  
> the
> > only php based solution that I found to be up to the task. There is
> > very little Drupal integration, but a module could be written to
> > integrate it better with Drupal.
>
> A Drupal integration for PHP-list exists: http://drupal.org/project/phplist
>  But given the comment at the start of its project page is may not be
> for long:
> "Given that Massmailer recently been updated for Drupal 5 I am
> thinking of abandoning this project. If anyone has any persausive
> arguments for or against this proposition, I would be very pleased to
> hear them !"
>
>
> Regards,
> Erik Stielstra
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