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How Bulk Emailing Works

The following information is about bulk e-mail. There are many side of mass e-mail from the logistic of performing a mass e-mail campaign to moral issues of bulk e-mail :

Electronic mail, or e-mail, might be the most heavily used feature of the Internet. You can use it to send messages to anyone who is connected to the Internet or connected to a computer network that has a connection to the Internet, such as an online service. Millions of people send and receive e-mail every day. E-mail is a great way to keep up with far-flung relatives, friends, co-workers in different branches of your company, and colleagues in your field. Hence mass email was born where product or services can be bulk email to reaching hundreds of thousands people with in hours and market reaction can be gauged within days instead of weeks or months. Bulk e-mail is a powerful marketing medium but also a controversial issue in internet community. The following addresses the logistic side of the process of bulk emailing and we leave the moral side to you. Bulk e-mail in itself did not started out as a term for unethical e-mail marketers but a term for sending out mass / bulk email to a large group of people.

Mass e-mail messages are sent in the same way as most Internet data. The TPC protocol breaks your bulk email messages into packets, the IP protocol delivers the packets to the proper location, and then the TPC reassembles the message on the receiving mail server so it can be read. Bulk email requires a special software that takes each individual email address from that bulk email list and send one message to one email address on that mass e-mail list. There are a lot of mass email software out there that can perform bulk e-mail functions but most lack the speed and features that customized bulk emailing software can do. In spite of most bulk e-mail software manufacture claims, all mass e-mail software requires a large bandwidth and heavy uses of a computer resources.

You can also attach binary files, such as pictures, videos, sounds and executable files to your mass e-mail messages. Because the Internet isn't capable of directly handling binary files in bulk e-mail, the first must be encoded in one of a variety of encoding schemes. Popular schemes are MIME and uuencode. The person who receives the attached binary file (called an attachment) must decode the file with the same scheme that was through all the networks of the Internet.

When you send bulk e-mail to someone on the Internet, that message often has to travel through a series of networks before it reaches the recipient - networks that might use different email formats. Gateways perform the job of translating email formats from one network to another so that the messages can make their way through all the networks of the Internet.

A mass e-mail address list is one of the most interesting uses of bulk emailing. It connects a group of people by their email address who are interested in the same topic, such as funny cartoons or cars. When one person sends email to the bulk email list, that message is automatically sent to everyone on that list, hence bulk emailing. You can meet others and talk to them on a regular basis about your shared interests, hobbies, or professions. To get onto a professional bulk emailing list, you send an e-mail note to the bulk mailing list administrator and include your email address to be added into the bulk email list.

Bulk e-mail lists can be moderated or unmoderated. A moderated bulk mail list is screened by the bulk e-mail list administrator, who might kill duplicate bulk email messages or messages not related to the list's theme. An unmoderated bulk mail list is wide open; all bulk mail sent to it is automatically sent to everyone on the bulk email list.

Often, when you want to subscribe to a bulk e-mail list, you send a message to a computer instead of a person. That computer, known as a list server (also called a listserv), reads your e-mail and automatically subscribes you to the mass email list. You can unsubscribe from the bulk email list the same way. Unfortunately, as more and more unethical email marketers are using bulk email as their preferred method of advertising, get out of bulk email list is next to impossible nowadays unless the bulk email is coming from a reputable bulk emailing company. All ethical bulk email company is more than happy to take you off of their bulk email list because of your request. In spite of the misconception that bulk email cost nothing - bulk e-mail does. The use of bandwidth and resources that all bulk email company uses can be added up to thousands of dollars every month to be able to send out bulk emails. When a ethical bulk e-mail company receives your request to be removed, they know that your are not a customer that will buy or use the service and also they do not have to use their resource to send out that message.