| 摘要 |
A method, and infrastructure supporting the same, for enabling the supply of data to a predetermined group of recipients (14), each of which has a means (24) for displaying messages carried in said data and received electronically via a communications channel (28). A host (10) provides an electronic communications facility operating to send data to its own group of client recipients over the communications channel (28). A requesting party (12) provides to the host (10) one or more items of data and a plurality of individually specified recipient addresses, and the host (10) sends this data to each of the recipient addresses on behalf of the requesting party (12). In this arrangement, the host (10) can recoup some of the costs of establishing the communications facility by charging the requesting party (12) for message delivery, whilst the requesting party avoids such establishment costs.
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