Yahoo groups are also severely limited to haw maynames you can send to within a half hour of time.

I send the Central Florida folk news to over 2,000 addresses per month and have been mostly successful - even for block-type addresses such as Yahoo or AOL. Also, my letter is very, very long (unfortunately - too big and too much work) about 400 lines.

Most of my success, however has been sheer luck. Thus, I've only learned a small handfull of solutions.

1. Use a friendly mailer: I mail using Forte Agent (the registered one, not Free Agent). It allows about 1300 names in its own List module. It's essentially BCC but far easier to use since you just maintain the list in your address book.

2. My To: line reads my own address (as mentioned above) It must be a legit address to get through many blockers.

3. Pick a friendly ISP: Most have some limits on how many addresses you can use per message. Call them & ask. and/or My company was unlimited but went to a max of 200 a while back. I can deal with that by sending 12 copies at once. A minor annoyance.

4. Pay attention to the "Undeliverable" feedback messages. They often tell you exactly what went wrong. Sometimes you must have the intended recipient contact their own ISP and ask the problem. Often it's a tech, heading or registration problem that recipient's and your tech people can solve. Sometimes they can register you with their own ISP to specifically "allow" your messages. I've had five cases like these but I'd never have known without the communication.

I'd _like_ to use a list program or Web based group. No success yet in finding the right one. They're all for fee, of course & I try to avoid that. OTOH, some of the best list servers are at universities. Your friend might try to con a univ-associated list member into checking with their own institution. Generally, she will only have to email her newsletter once to the List which in turn sends it out.

Good luck to her. Every time I get pissed off that something didn't get through, I just sit back and wonder how many spam I'd be getting, myself if blockers didn't exist at all.