Re: Re: Sending an e-mail to 1,000 people

On Sat, 2002-02-02 at 17:42, Manuel Lemos wrote: > Hello, > > Lars Wilhelmsen wrote: > > > > "Ben Clumeck" <bclumeck@home.com> wrote in message > > news:NFBBJJIAAGFCPNFKMPGOMEPKCEAA.bclumeck@home.com... > > > I would like to send an e-mail (the same e-mail) to 1,000 different > > people. > > > I want each persons name to be in the "To:" field. Is there a way to > > > customize it to where it can say Dear____ (having a different persons name > > > corresponding to an e-mail address) so that it looks customized. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Ben > > > > > > > What you are describing is called SPAMMING, something > > we really, really dislike. > > You are confused. Spamming is sending the same message to the same > person more than once. > > What I think you mean is unsolicited e-mail. The original poster did not > mention whether the people he wants to mail want to receive his > messages, so you can't assume that is necessarily unsolicited. > I think you are confused... Unsolicited e-mail is in fact the definition of spam! Secondly, reasonable assumptions can often be made, for example, when I see a message from you, its almost guaranteed that you'll be plugging PHPClasses, or Metabase, or both. Assumptions are why killfiles were invented. From the users original post, the likely assumption is that he is using it to send out some sort of spam/product announcement. -Sterling