In accordance with one or more aspects, a method for distributing electronic messages, the method includes receiving an electronic message at a transmission server sent from a source device over the network, where the electronic message includes a semi-blind distribution list including members of more than one distribution group, and with the processor parsing the more than one distribution group, formatting a group electronic message for each of the parsed distribution groups based on the electronic message where the group electronic message is formatted such that members of a common distribution group of the more than one distribution group are visible to one another as recipients in the semi-blind distribution list, and transmitting a respective group electronic message to respective remote devices and wherein the members of another distribution group different from the common distribution group are invisible in the respective group electronic message corresponding to the common distribution group.