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In January, we want to switch from a paper newsletter to an html version and send it to our volunteers and families. We want to give families without computers or access to email the opportunity to have their newsletter mailed to them. At this point we are pre-weblink and in my ministry (Children's) we have about 900+ individuals and when I query'd for records with email addresses, I got a whopping 31. So we will be doing a mass push for email addresses so we can send our email newsletter starting in January. So here's the idea, if a person has a email address in F1, we will send an email newsletter. If they don't, they get nothing. That would be the incentive for families to give up their email addresses. But those who don't have one or a computer will have trouble staying connected. So, does anyone have any ideas as to how I could make this work? I looked at the preferences tab under communication. (Open someone’s record and click on communication) It seems like we could do something there like a “Send Mail Only” option. But realistically, how would I use that information. When I do a query, I can’t search by preferences, so I’m not sure if that would work. Any ideas?

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Serving the King,
Chris McKinney

Would attributes work for you in this case?  Assign each family or possibly even each member an attribute of "Newsletter - Email" or "NewsLetter - Snail Mail" or something similar.  This would also give you the option of having a "Newsletter - None" option for people who want to opt out of any mailings you send.

In Him,

-Peter