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Stuart515 wrote:

I have just taken over as unpaid secretary of a golf club and do most of my
work using my home PC. I have distribution list of all members emails (approx
300) but do not wish them all to be displayed to all recipients. I am aware
of the use of bcc to hide other addressees; however, I am told that including
too many addressees in the bcc list causes problems with either ISPs or Spam
filters. Is this true? If so can anyone suggest a work around.

Thank you



300 recipients in BCC is a dead-on flag to most spam filters.

I'd suggest setting up a Yahoo Group or Google Group that is a one-way
sending list only. That way you can send as necessary, and you can
also set yourself as well as selected alternates up to send out
notices.

There is also a free/shareware called "Group Mail" you can look into.
Group Mail's free version limits sending to 100 per mailing list, so
for 300 you'd want to set up at least 3 lists. Break it up by
alphabet and you could have 4-5.

I use it to send mail to a press list and have it set for 2 lists at
60 per list allowing me to send 2 e-mails to reach 120 contacts.

For my local community center I went the Google Group route and have
it set to send only and only the administrator or authorized accounts
can post out. that way we have a back-up person if I am not around.
I like the Google Groups option because the distributions show up on
the web site, by e-mail, and are also available as an RSS feed. So if
you have an RSS reader plugged in to a web page it automatically
displays there without any further need on your part. I use that
feature to post special announcements on our center's Facebook page.

You also want to check with your internet service provider as most now
have a limit on hte number of e-mails one can send per hour and per
day. This doesn't effect most people so it is invisible to most.

If you find that you need more per hour or day and can demonstrate to
the ISP you have a legitimate need they can expend the parameters on
your account to allow it, assuming they are amenable to that.