Subject: Broadcasting emails

From: [email-masked] (Zhenghao Yeh)
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 22:45:54 GMT

Hi! Expert,

How can I send broadcasting emails? I have a list of my friends, I want 
to send the same email to all of them with one address on each mail 
header. What I mean is that there shouldn't be all the addresses in the 
header? Can pine do that? Thanks.

- Yeh

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From: [email-masked] (Neil Grantham ([email-masked]))
Date: 26 Sep 96 16:18:38 GMT

> header? Can pine do that? Thanks.

Is your system Unix ?

If so, we have a lot of machines on a network
In /etc on the server we have a file called aliases
In there are alaises for users on the system, and also groups of people
EG

fredf		fredf@bedrock
betty		betty@bedrock
wilma		wilma@bedrock

flintstones	fredf,wilma,betty

So you would send mail to flintstones@server, and the aliases 
does the rest.

Hope that helps, or steers you in the right direction

Neil

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From: [email-masked] (Guy Meacham)
Date: 29 Sep 1996 06:18:40 GMT

On 28 Sep 1996 09:08:12 GMT Abhay Roy wrote:
: Zhenghao Yeh ([email-masked]) wrote:
: 
: Not only pine, but all the mailers I know so far, CAN'T do this. 
: 
I dont know about pine bur Pegasus will do this just fine. I use Pine to
read and weed out e mail then Pegasus to save wanted mail and write mail.
guy.
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From: [email-masked] (Abhay Roy)
Date: 28 Sep 1996 09:08:12 GMT

Zhenghao Yeh ([email-masked]) wrote:
: Hi! Expert,
: 
: How can I send broadcasting emails? I have a list of my friends, I want 
: to send the same email to all of them with one address on each mail 
: header. What I mean is that there shouldn't be all the addresses in the 
: header? Can pine do that? Thanks.

Not only pine, but all the mailers I know so far, CAN'T do this. 

The best you can do is something like this.
Send the message to YOURSELF, and put the distribution list as bcc. When it 
reaches all, they will see that mail was sent from you to you !! They won't
know, who else got a copy.

Later,
-Roy-
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                   Abhay Kumar Roy, Software Engineer
                           Cisco Systems Inc.
    "Better to understand a little, than to misunderstand a lot."
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