I should note that the end users using the databases I mentioned weren't
writing DISTRIBUTE jobs themselves either. We built a desktop tool that
built all the jobs from text and lists stored in an Oracle database.
They never say the raw email jobs or did anything more complicated than
composing a mail-merge in Word-like interface and pressing "Send".

Simple mail-merge really isn't all that difficult, but I agree that once
you get into multi-part emails (and when you consider graphics) you have
to really be a gluten for punishment.  The documentation is cryptic at
best, and I can assume it won't improve since I'm sure bad documentation
helps the sales of Maestro. ;-)


Keith Stone
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Subject: Re: Maestro?

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Frankly, I don't know why anyone except the L-Soft programmers working
on Maestro would still be messing with DISTRIBUTE jobs. 
That's what Maestro is for.

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