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Originally Posted by jamiedolan

Thanks. It does sound like that might work for our site. We are also on the latest version of VB, so it would be good if there was an up to date version of this plugin.

Agreed about having a more up to date version. However, it appears that the developer may have been content with his product and abandoned further development. I do believe that this could be made to work for newer vB releases with some tweaking.

Originally Posted by Videx

The biggest problem is that once people got used to this sort of thing they would never visit your site. You could be churning out tons of emails but your traffic would be down.

And lots of emails isn't a good thing these days. Even if you have a dedicated server there are fairly strict email limits to avoid spam. As soon as anyone marks an email "spam" then boom - all your emails to that domain go into spam filters.

Finally there's a new belief that younger users don't use email at all.

I completely understand what you are getting at. However, our active user base has grown accustomed to our List Serv for many years now and are not interested in losing it in lieu of a forum. Furthermore, there is no worry of losing traffic to the site if something like this were implemented.

These are primarily older (35-60 year old) individuals so this does play into what you mentioned.

As previously stated, I am only looking to have messages from this email list be collected within the forum for archival and searching means. I would imagine that this is entirely possible but have yet to find anyone who has made this work.

Thank you both your input!