Subject: distribution list setup hell

From: [email-masked] (Rob Pegoraro)
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 1995 03:24:49 -0400

Yup, another one of those. I'm trying to manage a project I very foolishly
volunteered to set up. To wit, sending out regular announcements to a very
large list of people. I have a straightforward ASCII text list of the
addresses in the appropriate addressbook ([email-masked],[email-masked])
formatting. And, yes, I know how to use the bcc: header :)  Two questions:

1) What's the best way to get this list--currently parked on my
Mac--incorporated into the addressbook? Two possibiities come to mind:
opening .addressbook with pico and pasting the entire list in; or trashing
.addressbook, adding the appropriate alias [tab] full-name [tab] list
(addresses) header, and uploading it into the right directory. In both
cases I'd need to trash and recreate the lookup file, I presume. While I'm
on the subject, how do I get pico to justify it appropriately, so that
pine doesn't screw up linebreaks either?

2) Is there a maximum number of addresses in a distribution list? Neither
the FAQ nor the tech notes seem to indicate this.

I'm using pine 3.91 on a Sun over a telnet connection.

TIA,

Rob

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From: [email-masked] (Rob Pegoraro)
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 1995 22:01:32 -0400

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] (Rob
Pegoraro) wrote:

In answer to my previous post:

All I needed to do was format the list of addresses so each address was
just separated by a <return> from the ones before and after it. Then log
in to the shell, run pine, go to the address book window, and cut and
paste the list with the "add to list" command prompt up. Pine interprets
each carriage return as an <enter>. A piece of cake.

Natch, it took me a couple of days of looking at ridiculously complicated
workarounds before realizing I could do this perfectly obvious trick :)
Hopefully I have spared others from similar frustration.

Cheers,

Rob

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From: [email-masked] (Bruce Mills)
Date: 20 Apr 1995 10:07:08 -0400

Ok, here's my stoopid question for today, which I am sure is in the FAQ, 
which is where I would look if I knew where it was (hint, hint).....

Can you set up a file with a list of addresses and then use the filename 
as input for To:, CC: or BCC:?  I have a humungous distribution list that 
has my .addressbook swollen like, well, you don't want to know.

Any help would be appreciated.
Bruce

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 1995 14:03:57 -0700 (PDT)

About the only thing you can do now is split your addressbook into a
couple different addressbooks and specify the filenames in the
Setup/Config screen... 

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On 20 Apr 1995, Bruce Mills wrote:

> Date: 20 Apr 1995 10:07:08 -0400
> From: Bruce Mills <[email-masked]>
> To: [email-masked]
> Subject: Re: distribution list setup hell
>