[Web4lib] Wordpress posts --> Mailman

[Kyle Jones]

Amy-
You may be able to import the legacy Mailman subscribers into the new  
feedburner list using something like this: http://watershedstudio.com/blog/2005/02/wordpress-email-notification-plugin-v20/
Not sure if it works with WP 2.7+  but it would allow you to import  
your legacy mailing list and force them to be subscribed.

I think you'll have to add them manually somehow for them to receive  
the updates if they won't subscribe on their own.

~Kyle Jones~

Library Technology Assistant
Elmhurst College
A.C. Buehler Library
(Telephone) 630.617.3161
(Fax) 630.617.3332
(AIM) ECLTA

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>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: "Amy Rogers" <rogers.a at comcast.net>
>> Date: Jul 20, 2009 3:36 PM
>> Subject: [Web4lib] Wordpress posts --> Mailman
>> To: <web4lib at webjunction.org>
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>> Hi- I manage a local public library association website that was  
>> recently re-built to run on Wordpress. I need advice.
>>
>> Feedburner is offered on the site to email latest posts to new  
>> subscribers and this list is growing. The association also has an  
>> older Mailman list with large number of subscribers. It started out  
>> as a members only list but is now open to all. I am looking for a  
>> way to automatically send the title and link of new posts to the  
>> Mailman list for subscribers who, for one reason or other, prefer  
>> not to sign up via Feedburner.
>>
>> We still have to think about this long-term, e.g. how to deal with  
>> two mailing lists, but for now, I'm looking for a way to make it  
>> easy to alert the Mailman subscribers when a new post goes up. The  
>> ability to feed posts to twitter, e.g. Twitterfeed gave me this  
>> idea. Any ideas how this could be accomplished between WordPress  
>> and Mailman? (I did not find any extensions for this function.)
>>
>> Amy
>> baynetlibs.org
>> webmaster at baynetlibs.org
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