Subject: Re: sending mail to nowhere

From: Sven Guckes <[email-masked]>
Date: 1 Dec 1995 18:01:38 GMT

[email-masked] (Zachary H Leber) writes:
>Is there a way to send mail to a dummy address that doesn't go anywhere
>but doesn't get returned?
>The reason for this is to put a dummy name such as To: distribution
><nobody@nowhere>, and put the real recipients in Bcc for big lists.
>Addressing it to myself is the current scheme, but then sometimes people
>think the mail is not for them.

I'd use an alias to myself for the To: line.
Example:

	To: FOO Mail List readers <guckes>
	Subject: [FOO] BAR blah blah

	Hello, gentle readers of the FOO Mailing List!
	This is a test.  Please ignore!

	me (FOO Mail List Maintainer)

It's not perfect, but at least I know that I can filter all those mails into
a mailing list folder.

Sven

Cc: [email-masked] (Zachary H Leber)

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From: "Marsha C. Holmes" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 1995 17:06:26 -0400

This might be a "stupid" answer but, why not send it to yourself!  It 
will, of course, go somewhere - directly to your own mailbox to do with 
as you please.

Hope this isn't a "saucy" answer but one that might be of use to you!

Marsha

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From: P-B <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 1995 19:51:19 -0500 (EST)

unsubscribe

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From: [email-masked] (John Stanley)
Date: 2 Dec 1995 06:40:42 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
Zachary H Leber <[email-masked]> wrote:
>but doesn't get returned?  The reason for this is to put a dummy
>name such as To: distribution <nobody@nowhere>, and put the real recipients
>in Bcc for big lists.  Addressing it to myself is the current scheme,
>but then sometimes people think the mail is not for them.

Why don't you create an alias and then send the mail to that alias? 
Or have your admin create it and point it at a file you own?

Or, as a hoot, don't put a To: header in at all. Use only a BCC:, which
can be blank.

What you might be unaware of is that BCC was't intended to keep the
recipients completely secret. It is permitted for the BCC list of
addresses to be included in the mail sent to anyone in the BCC list.
Just not to anyone in the To: or CC: header.

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From: [email-masked] (Jonathan and DearOldDad)
Date: 7 Dec 1995 07:29:26 GMT

Marsha C. Holmes ([email-masked]) wrote:
: This might be a "stupid" answer but, why not send it to yourself!  It 
: will, of course, go somewhere - directly to your own mailbox to do with 
: as you please.
: Hope this isn't a "saucy" answer but one that might be of use to you!
: Marsha

No Marsha, that's too simple an answer for all the foobars on here ... 
does work though ... hey, what the hell, sometimes saucy is better than  
scripts ... BYE ... 
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From: Stephen Weihman <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 1995 09:09:38 -0500

>but doesn't get returned?

Why not leave to To: field blank, and enter just the BCC: addresses?  That way, the mail just shows their
address in the list, not a To: field with any name.  Works for me...

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From: Clyde Moseberry <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 1995 15:29:22 CST

If anyone is interested in my posting or emailing 
a script that writes/updates MH ($HOME/Mail) folders 
of arbitrary depth into $HOME/.pinerc's folder-collections.

I got tired of asking/looking for such functionality, 
so I composed it myself.

MOSEBERRY

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From: [email-masked] (Zachary H Leber)
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 10:21:43 GMT

Please email to [email-masked].  Thanks.
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From: Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1995 11:19:29 -0800 (PST)

You should be able to send to something like

   To: My Distribution List:;

and have it go nowhere.

Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Networks and Distributed Computing, Univ. of Washington, Seattle