Abstract: A system for distributing electronic messages includes: (a) a central server that is connected to a wide-area network and that stores substantive message content information and corresponding delivery information; and (b) a group of forwarding servers, each: being connected to the wide-area network and having an associated set of recipients. The central server is configured, based on the delivery information, to automatically transmit message information, which includes substantive message content information, across the wide-area network to at least a subset of the forwarding servers, with the substantive message content information being identical for all such forwarding servers. Each of such forwarding servers is configured, upon receipt of the message information, to automatically generate and then transmit to individual recipients within its associated set a message that includes the substantive message content information.