[GSAS-board] Members requesting e-mail newsletters

[Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com>]

Hi Steev, et. al.

I have added a field to the user database, "EmailNewsletter", that can be 
set to 1 to indicate that the user prefers their newsletter to be 
e-mailed.  Feel free to start setting this value in response to people on 
the list.

Sometime later, I will create a script that generates an appropriate 
e-mail list every time it is run.  And if you're happy enough to not send 
paper copies, I will further modify the label generator to not include 
those folks in the paper version.

One word of warning:  Without the paper labels, there will need to be 
another means of notifying the person that they're about to expire.  This 
all could also be worked into an automated e-mail system in the future 
that would send a simple message with the link to the PDF and information 
about expiration time, like this:

"Dear Flying Fish Aquariums,

  Your November GSAS newsletter is here!  Please click on
  http://www.gsas.org/newsletters/123saba.pdf to read

  Your membership expires on June 12th.  Click <here> to renew today using
  PayPal, or send your check for $231 to Susan, blah blah blah."

   - Erik

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Erik Olson
erik at thekrib dot com
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