Subject: Recipients

From: "Eberto de Armas, Jr." <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 1996 14:16:52 -0700

Pine users:

Is there any way to not display the entire list of recipients when 
reading mail on Pine 3.92? Most of our messages have 2 pages worth of 
Recipients, so we have to page forward to get to the message (which is 
usually much short than the recipient list).

Thanks in advance,

Eberto

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 1996 09:33:06 +0100 (BST)

Not much that you can do once such a message has been received.

Instead, however, help everybody the message goes to by contacting the
sender and suggesting they start using the "Bcc" field to enter the list
of recipients rather than the "To:" field.

Hint #1: Make sure a valid "To:" field is still given -- either their own
e-mail address or something magical like this "Recipient List:;" (it's the
":;" that's magical).

Hint #2: If they're using Pine AND are sending to a distribution list in
their Address Book THEN use the "Lcc" field instead of "Bcc".  (The main
difference is that the name of the list will be copied from the Lcc field
to the To field along with the magical ":;".)

Hint #3: With Pine you can get to see/use the Bcc and Lcc fields by:
starting to compose your message, put the cursor on any header field,
typing ^R.

Cheers,

Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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