Subject: Re: distribution lists

From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 20:35:36 -0400

On 29 Sep 1996 [email-masked] wrote:

> I have been using Pine 3.91 [...]

    Since you are using an old verion of Pine, you will not be able to
use one of the nifty-swifty new features (Lcc:).

>   (1) is there a way to send to (all members within) a distribution list 
> without Pine printing out all of the member names into the header area? 
> [...]

    Yes.  Enter the name of the list in the Bcc: field instead of the
To: field.  (Press Ctrl-R for Rich Headers if Bcc: is not visible.)  It
is very important that you put *something* in the To: field, or your
distribution will wind up being visible anyway.  Probably the simplest
thing to do is to put your own address in the To: field.  This way,
each recipient will only see his/her address.  (Recommendation: pester
your service provider into upgrading Pine to current level so you can
use the new Lcc: feature.)

>   (2) if you have a file in your directory that is a listing of e-mail 
> addresses, is there a way to tell pine to use that (file) without having to 
> enter all those addresses into an ADDRESS BOOK distribution list?

    This one I do not know (but would like to know) myself.  Let's hope
one of the other fine people on this group will know.

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From: [email-masked] (Thomas Fritz Ramm)
Date: 4 Oct 1996 23:06:42 GMT

Answer to question (1): Use the Lcc: field. It shows the name of the list in the
header but doesn't show the individual addresses

[email-masked] wrote:
> I have been using Pine 3.91 for awhile but I am not very familiar with the 
> use of the address book.  I've figured out how to make a distribution list 
> within ADDRESS BOOK, and to use the name of the distribution list in 
> COMPOSE MESSAGE to send a message to all within the list.  But ...

> (I'd rather not have everyone in the group know who is in the group)
> I have seen this work for some mail tools on VMS systems ...  I am currently using a UNIX system ... and Pine?

> TIA

> Sue Foltz

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From: Gregor J Jones <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 5 Oct 1996 12:08:14 -0400 (EDT)

On Fri, 4 Oct 1996, Paul O Bartlett wrote:

 | On 29 Sep 1996 [email-masked] wrote:
 | 
 | >   (2) if you have a file in your directory that is a listing of e-mail 
 | > addresses, is there a way to tell pine to use that (file) without having
 | > to enter all those addresses into an ADDRESS BOOK distribution list?
 | 
 |     This one I do not know (but would like to know) myself.

I have not had reason to try this, but I do have a suggestion. Compose a
message to yourself, with the file containing the addresses as an
'attachment'. Then, when the message arrives, use the viewer to 'view' the
attachment, which should look like the original list, and then use 'take
address' to get the addresses. The trick is to get that file into some
format that can be read by Pine.

Yours

Gregor
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From: [email-masked]
Date: 29 Sep 1996 02:24:59 GMT

TIA

Sue Foltz

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