Re: communications to students?

[Vladimir Gabrielescu <vgabriel@oit.rutgers.edu>]

Nice, when we wrote ours (7 or so years ago) we couldn't find anything that did that. Maybe next time we get a large feature change request will adopt sympa too, though we would have to add some tools, we allow professors to create manage and destroy their own class mailing lists based on their current roster privileges, I think we have 3000-4000 of those lists at any one time.  

Vlad Gabrielescu
Rutgers University OIT/CSS, vgabriel@oit.rutgers.edu, 732-445-4785

----- "Ryan Fox" <rfox@findlay.edu> wrote:

> From: "Ryan Fox" <rfox@findlay.edu>
> To: vgabriel@oit.rutgers.edu
> Cc: "zimbra-hied-admins" <zimbra-hied-admins@sfu.ca>, "Amos" <a.goo0h@gmail.com>
> Sent: Friday, October 2, 2009 12:23:18 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: Re: communications to students?
>
> ----- "Vladimir Gabrielescu" <vgabriel@oit.rutgers.edu> wrote:
> 
> > 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
> 
> We recently switched from mailman to sympa, which does the same thing.
>  Sympa allows membership data sources to be defined from SQL queries,
> ldap queries, and more.  I'm very pleased with it.
> 
> Ryan