In response to overwhelming demand...

providing that you're using an openly-documented CMS/blog software that gives you the database format. Quite the opposite. I unsubscribed from the hosted mailing list service and I'm the Google Blogger.com system now. I don't necessarily feel good about that, but it makes my life easier. -----Original Message----- From: Jules Richardson [mailto:julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk] Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 1:46 PM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: In response to overwhelming demand... Evan Koblentz wrote: You need someone with a few PHP (or C, or whatever) skills I would have thought, and to be using some sort of CMS for the website (or at least have timestamped blog entries as plain-text in a database, which presumably any half-decent blog software does anyway). Homebrew some PHP (or whatever) code to pull any blog entries for a certain date range out of the database and concatenate them. You probably want to do something sensible with any images (or other non-text content) at that point too, like replace URLs with: [IMAGE http://blah/blah/blah.jpg] so that mailing-list subscribers can still access the non-text content via a web browser if they so wanted. The PHP/whatever code just submits the concatenated text to the mailing list in the same way as you've done in the past for newsletter submissions (e.g. using PHP's built-in SMTP abilities if needs be). Set up a cron job on the server to run the code once a day in order to send out a plain-text digest of that day's blog entries to mailing list subscribers. I doubt it's a lot of work at all for someone with a bit of free time - providing that you still have the mailing list software in place, and providing that you're using an openly-documented CMS/blog software that gives you the database format. cheers Jules