Thread:Extension talk:MassMessage/Incompatible with existing recipient list format

So the format for entries in a recipient list differs from that used for EdwardsBot/Global Message Delivery.

For those recipient lists that use the Target template on Meta, Kunal appears to have just fixed this, thankfully, by editing that template (after this issue had earlier today caused me to abandon an attempt to migrate from GMD to MM with one of the messages I'm sending out regularly). This fix hopefully enables most of the existing recipient lists under Global message delivery/Targets to be used for both MM and GMD. But if I'm informed correctly, there are a lot of other recipients lists around which don't use the Target template and will therefore be broken, e.g. the Signpost's or that of the Bugle. Also, I seem to recall that EdwardsBot can take a category as recipient list.

I had been under the impression that backward compatibility with EdwardsBot/Global Message Delivery was a development goal for MassMessage, but maybe I haven't been following the discussions closely enough.

Regards,