RE: Mailing List from Frontpage

From: George (george_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 10/01/04 

Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 11:39:04 -0700

Rick,

Thanks so much!!

I actually have done #3 by posting on the site a Members List page in which
association officers and key members can download an Excel file, swipe over
the email column, and then paste into their Outlook To: box a list of about
75 email addresses. Sadly, almost none of my non-technical members can do
this... So I even added a Notepad file with just the emails in one long line
for those w/o the ability to read Excel. The trouble is that even if they
might do this on Sept 1, but then keep using the same Outlook message (e.g.,
using Reply) or going to their Sent Mail folder and using it as the base for
another later email. But they miss all the intervening email changes that I
take care of keeping up to date. I was "naively hoping" I could set us a
mailing list module inside my site (Frontpage Add-in for example) and then
tell my users to simply send email to members@mysitename.org and my site
would receive the email and then forward it to all members using the most
current email addresses. Then they would never have to even know about the
email addresses. Doggone if I can find this Add-In. Forwarding, as I have
uncovered with Verio and some other ISPs, only let's you forward to one
address and not a list of addresses. I don't get this limitation since what I
wish to do is likely what many folks would also want to do.

I tried to find an alternate ISP to Verio that might have this built in
without much luck; I did find, for example, www.pair.com with support for
"Mailing Lists" (using Mailman 2.0) but I suspect it is not for the simple,
non-programmer Frontpage user like myself.

If I did setup an ASP page to receive an email from outside sent to
members@mysite.com is there a template on the web to show how this page would
be programmed that I could follow; presumably getting the email addresses out
of a database on my site (e.g., Access) and executing the mailtos? It would
need to handle attachments.

George F.

"Rick Budde" wrote:

> When you say "the site would maintain the current set of
> emails for all members", please define this a bit better.
> What will be done with the list? Who needs to see it? How
> will they use it? How frequently will it be updated? Will
> the organization numbers grow greatly?
>
> For instance, do you wish the current list to be viewable
> by all members at any point in time?
>
> If so there are several ways to go about this:
>
> 1. you could write some code in whatever language your
> host supports (ASP, PHP or whatever) to program what you
> want to happen, or
> 2. you could use Front Page's Database wizards to collect
> and display the data, or
> 3. with the relatively small membership, you could use a
> more manual approach. Have the members email you their
> address or changes to their address (use a mailto
> hyperlink) and then manually post them to a webpage
> containing a table listing name and email address.
>
> Or is this list just for the secretary of your
> organization so that he/she can send out periodic emails
> to association members? Then I would suggest using
> approach 3 above.
>
> In deciding which approach to use, take into acount how
> much effort it will take to do it programmatically versus
> manually.
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >I have about 75 persons that belong to an association
> whose web site I
> >manage. I would like any member to be able to send an
> email to something like
> >"members@mysite.org" and the site would maintain the
> current set of emails
> >for all members (both work and other emails they wish to
> submit). I use Verio
> >to host the site on a Win 2003 server (Bronze shared
> hosting). How would I
> >approach this?
> >--
> >George F
> >.
> >
>

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