Hello Ernest, There are a few CMSs that offer this type of functionality as pre-built modules in their CMS. I believe http://www.pillarsoftware.com/ has such a module for their system. Tony?
There are many on this list that don't feel that a mailing list should be part of a CMS. Although I don't think it should be "functionality" a CMS should offer, I do think you should be able to build one with a CMS. There are several other solutions that let you create one and many of us have already built it for other clients so you can ask for it and I'm sure they won't charge much for it. ;) So this brings up a good CM geek point: upstream or public content. CMSs are often limited by downstream publication requiring all content modifications to be done on the staging server before publication to the production servers. A public user accessing the production server usually never sees the staging server (which is often behind a firewall as well) so s/he won't be able to contribute content. I've seen quite a few creative work arounds for this but I'd like to know how devs on this list handle it. I'd also like to hear those that are against it. :) a. Andre Milton CTO www.mlore.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ernest Koe Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 2:46 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [cms-list] Integrated Mailing List in CMS Hello, I have looking for a CMS system that integrates mailing lists functionality...but despite my searches of the archive and various CMS sites, I can't seem to find much attention to this topic. I may be missing something and do encourage anyone to point me in the right direction. It seems to me, though, that one of the important features of a CMS would be to allow users to 'subscribe' to bulletin boards via email and give users the option to send email directly to the forum/mailing-list as well as to receive emails of posts to such a 'board'. The functionality I am looking for is akin to that of webcrossing (www.webcrossing.com), or Apple's implementation thereof in their 'Support>Discussions' forum. Any ideas? TIA -- http://cms-list.org/ trim your replies for good karma. -- http://cms-list.org/ trim your replies for good karma.
