Subject: How do you move a long listing of address headers to the bottom of the email?

From: Ronald B Harris-White II <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 1995 01:05:15 GMT

I send email to a bunch of my friends all at once, and I get complants 
from them that the beginning is SOOO long because of all the address 
headers. So I was wondering, how do you move all the address headers to 
the bottom of the email that you are sending? ( I have seen it done 
before). Thanks...

Ron Harris-White II
[email-masked]

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 1995 09:25:03 +0100 (BST)

The whole idea of headers is that they are *headers*... they appear at 
the *head* of something.  In this case the mailbox format used by most 
mail systems and readers (including Pine) tends to be that known as 
"Berkeley format".  This is defined as having the "header" information at 
the start of the message followed by the message text.

What you *really* want to do is suppress the huge list of usernames.

You can do this in Pine by *not* using the "To:" header field to give the 
list of recipients.  Instead type Ctrl/R (Rich Headers) to get some extra 
header fields displayed.  Then put the list of recipients in the "Bcc:" 
field.

"Bcc" stands for "Blind Carbon Copy".  This is a way of sending a message 
to a number of people, but who each only see their own name as a 
recipient -- they don't see each others.

A couple of points to note...

*  For Bcc to work properly the mail delivery agent (the thing which 
writes the message into the file as it arrives, as against Pine which 
"simply" is used for reading the messages once they have been written 
into the file) being properly configured.  If someone's "sendmail" 
delivery agent, for example, isn't configured properly they'll still get 
the full list of names (but then that's *their* problem:-)

*  The recipients can Reply to the message, but their repliy will only 
come to you, not to every one else you sent the original message to (as 
the recipient doesn't get to know about them, so can't reply to them!:-)

Mike Brudenell                                               <[email-masked]>
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