Patent ID: 7965995

Claim:
A method of transmitting a message by a communication system to at least one group of users selected from a population of users, said method implemented over the Internet, said method comprising: a) assigning to each member of the one group a common characteristic; b) collecting, by the communication system, from each member of the population an address to which the message may be sent, wherein a server of the communication system is programmed to download over the Internet a screen prompting a user to input the address to which the message may be sent and the address is saved in a database of the communication system; c) providing, by the communication system, a selected message; d) selecting the common characteristic; e) determining each user of the group with the selected common characteristic; and f) transmitting, by the communication system, the selected message to each member of the group with the selected characteristic, the transmitting comprising: capturing the stored address of the member and inserting the captured address into the message, whereby the message is sent to each user of the group with the common characteristic.