Re: [GSAS-board] Members requesting e-mail newsletters

[Steev Ward <steevward@yahoo.com>]

Great work Erik! 

I think the board members need to decide exactly how they want these things to 
work.
Some people have said they would like both paper and electrons. And I have 
hardcopies
to give some people at the meeting.I have a list of people who got the Email 
version:
18 so far.

We did cut down on the mailing a little this time.
In addition, an answer to our prayers- Ron at OfficeMax gave us this issue
COMPLIMENTARY!
That means we didn't get charged (so that's a savings of 100% printing wise - 
too bad I
didn't order MORE copies). 

Steev



--- Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com> wrote:

> 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
> 
> -- 
> Erik Olson
> erik at thekrib dot com
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