Virtual Mailing List Managers? 18
stan7826 asks: "I'm the sysadmin for the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program here in Southern California, and we currently run a small set of public mailing lists for earthquake information. We currently have a set of five lists. Two for long messages, two for short pager-style messages, and one for an ASCII-art map of earthquake shaking. People can subscribe to the list they want from our web page. But we are now looking at making this a statewide service, with a sort of cafeteria-style interface. We want for people to be able to select what events they get notified for by region, magnitude and message type. If I just create a mailing list for each combination, I get 24 different lists for California. This is just begging for some sort of database-driven virtual mailing list manager. Does anyone know of such a beast? (Preferably open-source, of course!)"
Hate to say it, buuut. (Score:3, Interesting)
Use your choice of web language to add email addresses to the database.
Then use something like perl to fire off the emails, depending on what the subscriber wants.
Can be simple if you separate (Score:2)
Then use the standard backend that comes with your mailing list software. For example both ezmlm and mailman (the two packages I am familiar with) need an address verified only once and you can administer all the lists to which you are subscribed to in one neat page after subscribing!
Re:Can be simple if you separate (Score:1)
I'm looking (albeit not hard) for mailman-like web-based management for ezmlm. Any help would be great.
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Phil
Re:Can be simple if you separate (Score:1)
http://ezmanage.sourceforge.net/
Probably Nothing Like This Available (Score:5, Interesting)
Now for magnitude, you can just flag each seismic event with an appropriate value and see if it meets the threshold the citizens want. And since you have the distance from the epicenter to the citizen's home, you can calculate the effective magnitude that the citizen feels, or you can just leave it as the magnitude found at the epicenter.
Re:Probably Nothing Like This Available (Score:2)
And easy, actually. I've done some proximity-based searching for a store locator, and it is simple if you have the data (ZIP to lat/long db).
Algorithms and ASP code here:
http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/webtech/010500-1.sh t ml [4guysfromrolla.com]
http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/webtech/040100-1.sht ml [4guysfromrolla.com]
http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/webtech/010500-2.sht ml [4guysfromrolla.com]
Just re-write in Perl or Python, and run it anytime there's an earthquake, emailing anyone within X (user definable) miles of the event. (email addres
Re:Probably Nothing Like This Available (Score:2)
Just to provide some additional information about TIGER and FIPS, you could definately use TIGER d
phplist? (Score:2)
If you want it customized for you, consider asking these guys [phpconsulting.com].
Re:phplist? (Score:2)
I searched Google but my search skillz weren't up to the job.
Re:phplist? (Score:2)
Checkout GNU Mailman [list.org] or Sympa [sympa.org]. ...).
Both are free; Mailman comes with RedHat, but Sympa is more advanced (choice of databases,
Re:phplist? (Score:2)
Listserv (Score:2)
For example, you might have LISTNAME-L with sub-lists Humor, Announce, Discuss. Most people would subscribe to Announce, and possibly Discuss. Probably not many to Humor.
In your case, you would probably end up with 24 sub-lists, and every message would have to have
sympa might do what you want (Score:2, Interesting)
nobody's said it yet? (Score:3, Funny)