You can do that with LISTSERV's mail-merge feature (see the developer's 
guide)  and with LISTSERV Maestro.

Nathan

At 04:03 PM 3/21/2005 -0600, you wrote:
>A department here has been looking at some bulk email software to purchase
>and one of the "selling-points" is that it sends out the mail
>one-at-a-time rather than sending the mail out in bunches per domain.
>
>Is this a setting that can be used with Listserve?  I've been reading the
>documentation on both the SMTP and list settings, along with the
>documentation on Listserve's distribution tool and I'm not finding any
>answers -- though "one-at-a-time" might not be the accepted technical term
>I should be using to search for.
>
>According to the sellers of the bulk email software, this "one-at-a-time"
>type of mailing makes it simpler to avoid having your mass emails be
>tagged as spam.
>
>Any thoughts on this?  Any pointers to the listserve and/or smtp settings
>if it's possible?  (I've also got a query in to LSoft about Maestro
>information, if that's the only way to go about it...)
>
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