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How Bulk Email Works

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

Electronic mail, or email, 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. Email 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 bulk email was born where product or services can be bulk e-mail to reaching hundreds of thousands people with in hours and market reaction can be gauged within days instead of weeks or months. Bulk email is a powerful marketing medium but also a controversial issue in internet community. The following addresses the logistic side of the process of bulk email and we leave the moral side to you. Bulk e-mail in itself did not started out as a term for unethical email marketers but a term for sending out mass / bulk email to a large group of people.

Bulk email messages are sent in the same way as most Internet data. The TPC protocol breaks your 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 e-mail address from that bulk email list and send one message to one email address on that bulk email list. There are a lot of bulk email software out there that can perform bulk e-mail function but most lack the speed and features that customized bulk email software can do. In spite of most bulk email software manufacture claims, all bulk email 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 bulk e-mail messages. Because the Internet isn't capable of directly handling binary files in bulk email, 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 email 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 e-mail formats from one network to another so that the messages can make their way through all the networks of the Internet.

A bulk email list is one of the most interesting uses of email broadcasting. 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 e-mail to the bulk email list, that message is automatically sent to everyone on that list, hence bulk email. You can meet others and talk to them on a regular basis about your shared interests, hobbies, or professions. To get onto a professional email list, you send an e-mail note to the bulk mailing list administrator and include your email address to be added into the email list.

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

Often, when you want to subscribe to a bulk 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 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 e-mail lists are next to impossible nowadays unless the bulk email is coming from a reputable bulk email company. All ethical bulk email company is more than happy to take you off of their list because of your request. In spite of the misconception that bulk email cost nothing - bulk email 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 email 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.