TIP: Click on subject to list as thread! ANSI
echo: internet_uk
to: DAVID ALLAN
from: SHAUN EWING
date: 1997-12-06 17:13:00
subject: More on....`SPAM`...

 > JR> RE: More on...."SPAM"...
 > JR> BY: David Allan to All on Mon Nov 24 1997 02:32 pm
 >
 > > Just wondered....How many addresses can/should one send a message to
 > before
 > > it comes under the definition of 'SPAM'....?
 > -=> Quoting Jonathan Roberts to DAVID ALLAN <=-
 > JR> I think it has more to do with whether the recepients WANT the
 > JR> mail. Mailing lists send to hundreds of addresses, but is not SPAM.
 > I send out a newsletter on a mailing list....  Just wondred if
 > I should
 > break down the list into smaller sections of addressees.
 > (FYI, it is NOT unsolicited...and they can request to be on
 > it, or off it.)
 > The reason I'm asking, is that it makes for VERY long
 > headers...and some
 > mail programs choke on overly long headers and 'recipient'
 > lists.....
What program do you use?
 My mailing list program (Outlook Express), does not add every recipient 
address to the header, only the receiving and sending address.
 Its fantastic, and takes about 5 seconds to send a 2kb message to 50 
addresses.
From Shaun
shaunewing@usa.net
ImmortalNet Co-ordinator
... Split personality?  Who, us?
--- FMail/Win32 1.22
---------------
* Origin: Immortal BBS Line 2 -=- St Clair, NSW Australia (3:712/848.5)

SOURCE: echomail via exec-pc

Email questions or comments to sysop@ipingthereforeiam.com
All parts of this website painstakingly hand-crafted in the U.S.A.!
IPTIA BBS/MUD/Terminal/Game Server List, © 2025 IPTIA Consulting™.