by David Strom
Ever wanted to send out emails to a bunch of people at once and tried to use Outlook or some other desktop email program to do it? The process may seem simple, until you start get messages that are returned because the addresses are old, or worse when someone replies to your entire list by mistake. Plus, using your desktop email program means you have to assemble the various collections of email addresses manually, and sometimes you can mess up.
There are also situations where sometimes you forget and put your entire list in the “To” field of your message, and invariably one of your recipients hits “reply all” and sends their reply to your entire list. That isn’t good!
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