Band Mailing List

[jamesnotjamie]

Hi everyone, hope this is the right place to post this...

I need some advice on a mailing list for my band...

We signed up to fanbridge, and although the features are good, e-mails still get chucked in the spam box and you have to pay after a certain amount, which we want to avoid for as long as possible.

So I was wondering if anyone has had experience of manually sending out e-mails. As in from a client like Thunderbird, Outlook or Mail, with 40 or so addresses in the To box. Would this go through as spam?

If not any other ideas? We're not talking huge numbers yet, but we've collected nearly 100 in 4 or 5 gigs, so it may not be all that long until a couple hundred ish...

Cheers,
James