The face of bulk e-mailing has certainly changed over the last few months. Gone are the days of blindly spewing out mass amounts of e-mail. Hackers and flamers have become much more militant and care must be taken to not upset Internet Citizens.

There is still much money to be made in direct e-mail marketing but one has to be smarter in their approach to it in order to succeed - remove requests have to be logged and honored, mailings must be planned and optimized, etc. Some pre-processing of your lists MUST be performed before commencing your mailing.

BulkMate v4.0 is the ULTRA-HIGH-SPEED e-mail list management 'Swiss Army Knife' for Win 95/Win 3.1/Win NT, and features 10 essential e-mail list pre-processing tools...all executed at warp-speed:

(1) REMOVER - Will process your remove list against your master list at warp speed. Also allows you to exclude .mil, .gov, .org, and/or .edu from your mailings just by simply checking any or all of their check-boxes. FASTEST remover tool around (See actual comparisons below).

(2) CLEANER - Extracts ALL valid internet addresses from an unlimited number of raw input source files in one shot. Then sorts them all into one clean, neat file.

(3) SPLITTER - Takes a large master file and splits it up into smaller files of any number of addresses you specify. Lightning fast.

(4) FILTERER - Want to avoid AOL addresses or any specific domain in your mailing? Just specify what types you want to filter out and 'Filterer' takes care of the rest. Select any or all of 10 pre-set types of addresses and/or specify an unlimited number of custom filtering criteria!

(5) KEEPER - Like 'Filterer', but in reverse. Only want to send to certain types of addresses or domains? Select any or all of 10 pre-set types of addresses and/or specify an unlimited number of custom keeping criteria and 'Keeper' will keep ONLY those addresses and ignore the rest.

(6) COUNTER - Ultra-High speed address counting utility.Also provides a graphical breakdown of the composition of your e-mail list.

(7) SEEDER - Automatically 'seed' your outgoing lists with your own e-mail addresses in order to monitor your mailing progress. Very useful.

(8) SEPARATOR - Can either separate and sort your list by domain (..essential to speeding up the actual mailing process), and/or produce a 'randomized' or scrambled output (..for getting past some of the major online services' blockades).

(9) APPENDER - Appends or 'tacks together' (ie. does NOT sort) the files generated by Separator, or any other files you specify. Can handle an unlimited amount of files. Quite handy and lightning fast.

(10) AUTOMATER - Puts it all together for you. Simply select and setup the pre-processing tasks you wish to perform and click GO. AUTOMATER will do it all, hands-free, one step-after-another at high speed. You will find this feature in no other software. Saves MUCH time and manual work.

(Please note that BulkMate v4.0 is NOT an e-mail SENDING program, it is LIST MANAGEMENT/PROCESSING software)

ACTUAL COMPARISONS:

Using our Pentium 100/32 megs RAM, we compared BulkMate against 2 other popular list management packages - MegaPro vb32 and ExtractorPro v6.1. Here are the results:

Some things to note about these tests:

- The latest version of FloodGate (6.1b) was hoped to be included in these tests, however NOTHING worked in its demo version..hence no time results for FloodGate.

- Task (6) - Separate 250,000 list by domain: MegaPro just separated them, BulkMate separated them AND also sorted them within their domain.

- Task (7) - Randomize 250,000 list: MegaPro does not do a real randomize here - it simply sorts your file starting at the 5th character of each address onward. If you study MegaPro's result file, you'll find large chunks of addresses throughout that are pretty well in alphabetical order.

- Task (8) - Separate 250,000 addresses by domain AND Randomize: BulkMate is the only package out there that will do this. It'll separate your address file by its various domains (ie. AOL, Compuserve, Delphi, etc.). Then it will randomize the addresses WITHIN each domain. The reason for the relatively high test time (12 min 40 sec) shown here is that in this test, BulkMate also randomized within EACH domain in the MISCELLANEOUS address category...literallly thousands of miscellaneous domains that BulkMate randomized individually. This feature (to randomize all the various miscellaneous domains) can be checked on/off by the user since it it is so time-intensive. With this feature not checked, time taken would have been 59 secs.

The price for BulkMate v4.0 is US$129 ( R 680 )with all future upgrades supplied free.

To order BulkMate v4.0:

We encourage everybody to try BulkMate v4.0 before they buy, so we've built the ordering process right into the downloadable demo file found below. The BulkMate v4.0 demo will operate in a fully-functional manner for 5 days or 15 tries (whichever comes first). After that, you may purchase BulkMate v4.0 and get IMMEDIATE authorization for its unlimited use in a very convenient, secure environment using your credit card.

Just download the file by clicking the button below. Unzip it and run the SETUP.EXE file to install.

(Find out where to download a FREE file of 250,000 e-mail addresses by simply running BulkMate and from the main menu, selecting 'Admin' then 'About'.

NOTE:If you wish to pay for BULKMATE via regular mail, please send bank draft, money order (..sorry, no personal or business cheques please) or your credit card information to MARITIME CURRENCY EXCHANGE (..our parent company) at the same mailing address as indicated below.