On 13 Jun 2005 at 13:32, Pete Weiss wrote:

> Not withstanding, in the simple case, a LISTSERV DISTRIBUTE MAIL Job would just
> as likely do the trick.

Sure. Maestro is at its heart an easy-to-use interface to the 
LISTSERV DISTRIBUTE command. 

Sending a plain text message to recipients pulled from a database is 
pretty easy to do with a simple DISTRIBUTE job sent by someone who is 
reasonably technical, who understands RFC822 rules, and who does not 
use a Microsoft mail client (which has a tendency to mess up even 
plain text). For everyone else, there's Maestro.

Depending on the complexity of your needs and tolerance for pain, you 
can do most things that Maestro does without Maestro (if you wanted 
the tracking, you could always write your own tracking app too). The 
goal of Maestro is to eliminate the pain and save a lot of time.  

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