Patent ID: 8572496

Claim:
A method, comprising the steps of: a) providing a web-based graphical user interface to a remote user operating a remote computer, wherein said web-based graphical user interface is configured to send electronic messages and said web-based graphical user interface comprises an element for selecting an option for generating and transmitting individual electronic messages to each of a plurality of recipients listed in visible fields, wherein said web-based graphical user interface is achieved by a first computer-readable code on a server computer and by a second computer-readable code on said remote computer, and wherein said server computer and said remote computer are communicatively connected via a computer network, b) obtaining from said remote computer a set of data via said web-based graphical user interface, wherein said set of data comprises a list of two or more recipients in visible fields, a message subject and/or a message body comprising one or more variable fields personalized, according to a name and an email address in said visible fields, to each of said plurality of recipients in each said message body, and an indicator that said option for sending individual electronic messages to multiple recipients in visible fields was selected, and wherein said message subject and/or said message body contain one or more markups indicating variable fields, c) generating individual electronic messages to each recipient in said list of two or more recipients in visible fields, wherein said one or more markups indicating variable fields are substituted with a recipient's information, d) determining a spam index from said set of data obtained from said remote computer, said spam index being determined by applying at least one statistical analysis to one or more terms in said message body to determine a predetermined interval, e) declining transmission of said individual electronic messages if said spam index is outside said predetermined interval, and f) transmitting said individual electronic messages via said computer network if said spam index is within said predetermined interval.