Does sending an email to lots of people get it marked as SPAM?

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djk104

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A question for experienced emailers. I'm getting a new email address, so I want to send an email to everyone I know telling them this.

What I'm wondering is, if I copy one email (via bcc) to lots of people, do the ISP's and/or email programs see this and label it as SPAM, and not deliver it, or send it into the junk folders? Or might my ISP (Time-Warner) not send it through?

If this is an issue, is there a generally "okay" number of people to copy to?

Thanks!
DanK
 
djk104 said:
A question for experienced emailers. I'm getting a new email address, so I want to send an email to everyone I know telling them this.

What I'm wondering is, if I copy one email (via bcc) to lots of people, do the ISP's and/or email programs see this and label it as SPAM, and not deliver it, or send it into the junk folders? Or might my ISP (Time-Warner) not send it through?

If this is an issue, is there a generally "okay" number of people to copy to?

Thanks!
DanK
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SPAM has in general more to do with content as with the way mails are send in bulk. Real large amounts of addresses will not be included in the mail itself (give or take a few thousand to milion emailaddress for spammers is no problem), but will be send individually by programs, which send the same mail to everyone in a separate supplies list. Also would that make it possible for some situations that all addresses you have in your list are know to everyone to who the mail is send (and you might not like that).


Good luck, Kees
 
Plus cc or bcc fields are rarely used by spammers. They use services that send the same mail to many, many addresses _separately_.
 
'Does sending an email to lots of people get it marked as SPAM?' - no (or more accurately - most likely not).

However, sending 'lots' of e-Mails, or e-Mails with many 'To', 'Cc', and / or 'Bcc' entries - may result in one being 'blacklisted'. Either - automatically by the server system, or manually - based on an audit (as a result of an automated server process).

Do not expect your ISP to explicitly state the number of e-Mail's one has to send, in bulk form, to be 'blacklisted'.
 
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