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What we need is REALLY simple:

1. Maintain something that looks like a standard drupal site for posting articles about our organization.
2. Setup a couple of "blogs" for various projects of our organization.
3. Allow members to join organization and pay via PayPal - Annual dues for our organization. This is NOT paid access to website content.
4. Print a list of members.
5. Sell tickets to events vial PayPal.
6. Print a list of ticket purchases for an event.
7. Send a newsletter to our 300 members.

Note: Our group is not tech savvy nor is it Internet Interested. So, the site will be maintained by 2 or 3 people and very few comments posted. So, we don't care about people registering for a site userid and would prefer that not be required.

Item 7 is the one possible "fly in the ointment". CiviCRM's CiviMail component is designed specifically for newsletter/mail blasts. However, it requires significant technical expertise to install - and can not be run on many typical virtual hosting setups.

That's interesting ... I'm was looking at phplist for email and realized we needed more member and contact management functions.

How are others handling their email ?  Would we export and import into something like phplist.

Specifically what type of install issues are there with the CiviMail module?

I agree with mchapman2000.  Use the UAS service, as it is well worth its very small price.