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["Adam Bernstein" <address@concealed>]

> Here's my problem:
> When people sign up to my mailing list, I'd like to get other info besides 
> their email address, 
> such as their name, zip code etc...
> I could easily set up a seperate database to do this and have Sympa include 
> that database. But what 

I see two answers here:  First, the real name is something that Sympa
already has a place for (in the "gecos" field, the naming of which
remains a complete mystery to me), and it should be gathered on the
subscription page next to the email address.  I tried half-heartedly
to add that into the Sympa code one day, but never quite got it working.
May be worth another try... or maybe we could get some help here?
Olivier?

Second, one easy way to gather all that other information is to write
your own Perl script that gets called by the subscription form instead
of Sympa's own routine, entering your data into whatever table you want
and then maybe sending off an email to Sympa with an "add <email> <name>"
command instead of doing the internal subscription routine (which would
also, of course, incidentally solve the first problem above, but not
very elegantly).

    adam
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