Email receipt updating associated contact details automatically?

[miner2049er]

I'm using Outlook 2003.

I have a couple of hundred contacts who I want to email at once and ask
them if their details are up-to-date website business directory.

(1) If I get a reply back fromt his emailing, I somehow want to
indicate in their Outlook contact record that they replied. Can this be
automated somehow (the reply causing a change somewhere in their
contact details), or everytime I get a reply do I have to go in to
their contact record manually and make some sort of data entry? (i.e.
change a YES/NO field.)

(2) After six months, I wish to send a follow up email to those
contacts who DID NOT reply at all to my earlier mailing. How would I do
this - can I selectively create a mailing list based on the value of
any contact field?

Thanks in advance for any replies.

Miner2049er.

 

[miner2049er]

OK, have done a bit more research. If anyone can comment on my
following thoughts, please do so.

So, I would set up a custom field for the contacts, for example a
YES/NO type field called "Replied to January 2007 mailing".

For (Q2) I can create a custom view of my contacts that would only
show those contacts where the "Replied to January 2007 mailing" is set
to NO (still at default.)

(I do not know how to turn this custom view into a mailing list though.
The Outlook help pages were no help.)

Regarding (Q1) I still do not know how the receipt of an email would
cause the corresponding email address in a contact to change the
"Replied to January 2007 mailing" field to YES. Am I right in thinking
that this requires some VB coding?

Once again, thanks in advance for any replies.

Miner2049er.