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From: chuq@plaid.Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Want mailing list software
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Date: 15 Mar 88 00:14:40 GMT
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>1) very easy to use.
>2) able to print on assorted labels, such as 3-up photocopier labels
>   in a laserwriter, or tractor fed labels in an imagewriter.
>3) able to merge Names/Addresses into MacWrite documents and print
>   customized letters.

One problem you'll run into is that Write doesn't support Mail Merge.
Perhaps one of the other low end Word processors (writenow?) does.

>Any Ideas?

One possibbility is to use a file program or database. 4D would do what you
want, with some programming, but it's expensive. FileMaker+ will definitely
do what you want, since I use it for my mailing lists and things for
OtherRealms. One nice thing about FM+ is that you can simply load the letter
into FM+ as just another form, and you don't need to dump the data out and
run a mail merge on it. There's enough graphic/WP power that you can
probably do everything you want just in FM+. And it's inexpensive, and you
can set up an arbitrary number of forms, including laser labels. It works 
fine, and you can automate a good part of the printing and sorting and
stuff with scripts. It's not as powerful as, say, 4D, but works well enough
for most reasonable sized databases. 


Chuq Von Rospach			chuq@sun.COM		Delphi: CHUQ

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