I think that has 'list server' written all over it. Nathan
> -----Original Message----- > From: Bauer, Mr. Rick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 1:27 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: Exchange 2000 "Blast" E-Mail: Best practices/product > suggestions? > > > Note sure if this is a Outlook or Exchange questions, but I am looking > for a best practice solution, and <pathetic sucking up > sound>this is the > smartest group of people I know in the Exchange > world</pathetic sucking > up sound>. > > 1. Organization environment: Exchange 2000, Outlook XP clients, 900 > users (students & faculty, boarding school) > 2. We want to be able to send a blast e-mail with emergency contact > information/news to non-Exchange e-mail users (parents, > alumni). Present > number of foreign e-mail addresses is ~2600, but the number > will go past > 5K soon. > 3. We track e-mail addresses in several SQL and other databases, so > ganging them all together is fairly awkward; once they are in an > excel/word document (separated by a semicolon, of course), > then they are > dumped into a BCC field, and then the message is sent. > 4) In light of Sept 11 issues, we ran into a problem in that the BCC > field will time out after about 500 individual e-mail addresses are > dumped in the field. > > Solutions: > > **3rd part list manager software?/Costs?/Experiences (we REALLY don't > want to start yet another DB for this if we don't have to; we'd rather > create some kind of address dump and go from there). We really don't > need a name/address connection for these addresses, we want to extract > them from our databases, dump them into some BCC-type entity, and then > send. > > **Private distro from an individual mailbox in Outlook? Sounds like a > lot of work to do the management. > > I am not a spammer, nor is this a fund-raising thing; the school has a > lot of alums on Wall Street, and we were overwhelmed with traffic on > Sept 11th from people wanting to let us know they were alive, or folks > looking for missing comrades. We also wanted to be able to send one > e-mail to all our parents quickly (we are 5 miles form a nuclear power > plant, so there was some concern about a terrorist attack). > > Again, I am not sure where to post this, if but those of you with > experience in solving this issue could contact me (even offline), I > would sure appreciate it. I searched the archives and the MS exchange > site, but could not find anything that spoke to a best practice or > recommendations. Free beer for good suggestions, and sorry for the > length of the post. > > Regards, > > Rick > Rick Bauer, Chief Information Officer > The Hill School * 717 East High Street > Pottstown, PA 19464 > (610) 326-1000, ext. 7373 * fax: 610 705-1767 > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > website: http://www.thehill.org > e-learning web: http://academy.thehill.org > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
