The best way to email lots of people at once, say 5,000

[abovewood]

Please give any suggestions you have.

At work, we have a long email list that the university keeps in touch with. What is the best way to send email to them at once, upto 5,000 people. Or if it can be done?

programing is not my area, it there some software that will do that?

thanks.

 

[Ladi]

listserv or majordomo!

basic info @ http://www.idrc.ca/books/848/setup3.html

~Ladi

 

[kranky]

Ladi's suggestions will work, but I was thinking that with blat (a command-line mail utility, and there are others besides blat) and a small batch job you could do it with less setup.

 

[Ulysses]

I just saw something on this, but I can't remember where 'cause it didn't matter to me.

I am going to look for it.

I think the technique involved some kind of simple mail merge that any secretary would know how to do with the word processor. The reference might have been in a PC magazine.

 

[Ulysses]

See: http://www.zdnet.com/zdhelp/stories/main/0,5594,902528,00.html

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E-mail Merge
Smart Business

Save money on paper and postage by sending form letters by e-mail. When performing a mail merge, select Email as your output format. This sends your customized, merged letter to the selected contacts as e-mail messages.


Also: http:// [url]http://www.zdnet.com/zdhelp/stories/main/0,5594,903289,00.html [/url]

Use Mail Merge in e-mail to send out personalized messages to a group
Microsoft Corp.

In Microsoft Word 97, Mail Merge (this isn't a new feature, but cool and not well known) lets you do a mail merge into e-mail to send out personalized emails to a group. This can be a fun and easy way to send out mail to a common list of friends or colleagues. The Mail Merge feature in Microsoft Word 97 takes you through the steps, making it easy to pull all your addresses together on one e-mail.


Go here and search for "mail merge email:"

http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/

 

[abovewood]

thanks for the help. I will look in to those. keep more suggestions coming