Subject: Question about Blind Carbon Copy

From: [email-masked] (Jonathan P Frain)
Date: 14 Aug 1996 22:05:13 GMT

Hi,

	I just put together a mailing list.  Is there a way to make it so 
that the recipient of the message doesn't receive the names of all the 
other names on the list.  I was told Blind Carbon Copy is a way to do 
this but i don't know if it exists on pine.
	Please respond by email.

						Thanks,
							Jon Frain

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 09:06:37 +0100 (BST)

0.  Yes, BCC does exist in Pine (and has done for many, many moon).

1.  Put cursor on a header line of the message you are composing.

2.  Look at menu at bottom of screen and see that ^R (Rich Header) sounds
    interesting.  Type ^R.

3.  This expands the header section to reveal all available headers,
    including Bcc.

Cheers,

Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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From: Hans Schleichert <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 11:09:36 +0200

> this but i don't know if it exists on pine.

Rather than Bcc:, use Pine's Lcc: feature. There has been a discussion of
Lcc: on this list over the past weeks. While composing the message, move
the cursor into the header and press Ctrl-R (rich header). This will
display both Bcc: and Lcc: lines. Move to Lcc:, and enter the name of the
distribution list (you must define this list in Pine's addressbook). This
will put the list's name into the To: line, and the recipients into the
Lcc: field, but the recipients will only see the To: line and not the
Lcc:. You may want to try first, by creating a distribution list that
contains only yourself, and maybe one or two friends.

         -  Hans
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Institut fuer Medizinische Psychologie und Verhaltensneurobiologie
(Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioural Neurobiology)
Eberhard-Karls-University
Gartenstrasse 29
D-72074 Tuebingen, Germany

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From: [email-masked] (Zachary H Leber)
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 10:58:11 GMT

Put yourself as the To: recipient and the list as the Bcc: recipient 
(exposed with Ctrl-R).  This is the only way that is guaranteed to work, 
despite what advice you get about dummy fields and Lcc, which are not 
supported by all mailers in my experience.

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From: Beth Peterson <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 16:31:17 -0500

To clearify some of these messages up for you:

Depending on what version you are using there are different ways that you can
do this.  If you are using 3.93+ then you can do the Lcc way as noted in a
previous message to you.  If you do not have 3.93+ then you can do it by using
the Bcc way as noted but you have to place :; (a colon followed by a
semi-colon) in the to field.  If you do not place the :; the recipents will
still see eveyone elses name.

|
|Hi,
|
|	I just put together a mailing list.  Is there a way to make it so 
|that the recipient of the message doesn't receive the names of all the 
|other names on the list.  I was told Blind Carbon Copy is a way to do 
|this but i don't know if it exists on pine.
|	Please respond by email.
|
|						Thanks,
|							Jon Frain
|
|

Beth Peterson
bethp@fnal
Physics Department

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From: [email-masked] (Tim Mooney)
Date: 26 Aug 1996 01:20:10 -0500

In article <[email-masked]>,
> (exposed with Ctrl-R).  This is the only way that is guaranteed to work, 

Agreed.  As I posted in another thread, with pine 3.91 and sendmail 8.7.5,
using a

	:;

in the To: field and putting the real recipients in the Bcc: field works
mostly, but although the message is correctly delivered to the Bcc: recipients
a bounce is generated by sendmail.

> supported by all mailers in my experience.

Mine too.

Tim
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