We do most of our student communication through a separate mailing list software package, we wrote in house. It is a fairly full featured thing, but is main strong point is that it defines list as a SQL query against our data warehouse so we can generate lists that match any combination of demographics we keep track of, from everyone in the University, down to a class section and only for those folks who wear size 12. I'm exaggerating but not much. The beauty of it is that it generates the correct list member ship for every single mailing from the raw data, so once list is defined it require not updates.
Vlad Gabrielescu
Rutgers University OIT/CSS, vgabriel@oit.rutgers.edu, 732-445-4785
----- "Amos" <a.goo0h@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: "Amos" <a.goo0h@gmail.com>
> To: "zimbra-hied-admins" <zimbra-hied-admins@sfu.ca>
> Sent: Friday, October 2, 2009 11:18:59 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: communications to students?
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> How are folks here communicating to their students en mass? We've had a ton of lists for the various majors, as well as some larger broadcasts lists like students@ and students.seniors@, etc. On Cyrus we also mirrored some of these to read-only folders. However, not sure how well that would work with Zimbra because the read flag is per folder, not per user. (I would LOVE for the read flag to be configurable on a per folder basis whether it is per folder, or per user!) So, wondering if maybe we need to think about RSS feeds, or some other tricks. Would love to hear what others are doing.
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Amos
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