Simplenews and CiviCRM

Hello folks,

I'm in the middle of setting up a newsletter environment, and I'm finding CiviMail rediculously complicated to set up. Yet, I would like to be able to easily send to a particular CiviCRM group, and enjoy all the benefits of the signups. My site signs people up for the newsletter by putting them in a certain group.

In theory, I'm looking for a module which ties simplenews to civicrm, which doesn't seem to complicated. Ideally, this connection would occur when I create a simplenews group; it would allow me to select a CiviCRM group. From that point the simplenews newsletter would associate dynamically with the group.

Is this possible?