A note on bulk emailing - with a small list of 400 or so it's not so bad, but you'll need to be mega careful with your email procedures if you send out to a list of 2,000 or so. It's very easy to have your ISP or webhost ban you for spamming. To avoid this you might find you need to send them out in groups of 100 or less, and make absolutely sure to have an unsubscribe link at the top of the message.
A proportion of all emails are always bounced, that is, marked as spam or returned undeliverable. If your percentage gets higher than it should be, your ISP gets pressured by other ISPs to shut you down as a spammer.
I had some problems with this and only recommend a commercial service now. Once your domain (website) is greylisted things get tricky. But if you are self-mailing the emails then it's perhaps less of a problem - just be careful. Everyone hates spam, especially ISPs (the people who provide your Internet connection), since a percentage of traffic, which they are paying for, is spam. Your mail isn't spam but all bulk mailings get tarred with the same brush now. The safest way is a double opt-in system, where they have agreed to receive the email and you have a record of that, and there is a prominent opt-out link in the message.
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