Subject: Re: Blind CC's

From: Rob Joyce <[email-masked]>
Date: 25 Jul 1995 15:28:57 GMT

Bonie,
	You can use BCC's if you enable "Rich Headers" while you are composing
outgoing mail.  Control-R will do it if you're in the header portion of the
compose view.  If this doesn't work, make sure "enable-full-header-cmd" is set
in the setup menu.  Sorry to repeat if your question has already been
answered...

-Rob

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From: Bonnie <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 1995 10:55:21 -0400

Hi,

I am wondering if there is any way in Pine 3.91 to send blind carbon copies?
I'm going to be putting out a newsletter and want to know the best way to 
handle sending copies of the same material to several people.

It will be printed on software in my PC, so will have to upload it and 
attach it to the mail form I guess.  So.. if I do that will some people 
not be able to read it because of MIME??

Thank you for any suggestions you can give me.

Bonie

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From: [email-masked] (Steve Patlan)
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 1995 18:35:10 -0600

> I am wondering if there is any way in Pine 3.91 to send blind carbon copies?
  "Bcc" is always in the header, you just have to do a ^R ("rich
headers"), to see the other lines.  If you always want to see it, you can
include it in your "standard" header lines, there is an
appropriately-named setup option for this, one before or one after the
"Custom Headers" option.  READ the help on this option - you need to list
*all* your default headers, not just the extra ones.

> handle sending copies of the same material to several people.
Well, the only reasons I can think of for using BCC in this case are 1)
You don't want all the recipients to know who all the other recepients
are.  2)  You don't want any e-mail replies inadvertantly being sent to a
gazillion folx.
 
> not be able to read it because of MIME??
It's quite likely - not everybody speaks MIME.

- Steve

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From: [email-masked] (Alan J Flavell)
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 1995 13:43:24 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>
 
>I am wondering if there is any way in Pine 3.91 to send blind carbon copies?
 
Sure.  Bcc: is supported.  Use the custom headers option to
create one routinely, or turn on full-headers to create one manually.
Oh, you want to do it via the addressbook?  Well, I think you need to
define a listname that includes all of the recipients to which you want
to send blind, and specify that listname on your bcc: header.  I guess
you'll need one recipient (even if it's only yourself) in the "To:"
field though.
 
>not be able to read it because of MIME??
 
Depends what you are trying to achieve.  Simplest is to produce your
material in a monospaced font, save it as plain text, and Read that
into your mail.  That will reach any email user, MIME-capable or not,
but format-wise it's totally boring.
 
If you create nicely WYSIWYG formatted text in some proprietary format
and ATTACH it to your mail, then the only recipients who can read it
are those who can decode the MIME _and_ have a copy of the proprietary
word-processing software.
 
There are a number of intermediate possibilities.  So, as I say,
it depends on what you want to achieve (and on how much you know about
the computing/software environment available to your recipients).