Evan evanesces:

> I am helping out the principal of my childrens school in distributing
>  weekly newsletters via pre-registered e-mails.  They currently are using
>  Outlook Express as their e-mail package, and I absolutely shudder at the
>  thought of importing a few hundred e-mail address into this packaging just
>  sitting as bait for the next worm.

What I do when I want to send the same email to several hundred people using
Outlook Express at a time is merely this:

     o I extract the email addresses of the qualifying people from IMAGE
using QueryCalc, writing their email addresses into an MPE flat file, one
email address per line. Although I could append a comma to the end of each
line, I've found that it isn't necessary with Outlook Express.

     o I then ftp the flat file to a PC, adding the ".txt" extension at the
same time to the file's name.

     o I open the new text file on the PC using Notepad, "select all" and
then copy the list to the clipboard.

     o I then go to Outlook Express, paste the list into the BCC: (blind
carbon copy mailing list) entry box. I have no idea what the limit is for
this entry box, but it will certainly hold a few hundred entries. I put my
own address into the TO: entry box so that I can be sure that I will receive
a copy as well as satisfy Outlook that there is a primary recipient, I enter
a subject and fill in the body of the text -- and then press SEND. Voila,
it's done in an instant.

Using the BCC: mode insures that each recipient only sees his or her own
email address in the email that he or she receives, not the entire list's.

Although I tend to run on the very low side of paranoia and someone stealing
my list of names was never a concern, doing it this way makes that process
practically impossible given that they would have no idea of where the
namelist was on the PC or even what the file was called.

Wirt Atmar

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