Subject: Headers List

From: Jaime Pina <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 1997 13:22:07 -0600

I am part of a very long list (very, very, long list), and when I
read mail from it, 95% of the message is taken up by the header "TO:" with
all the names and addresses of the list.  What do I do so that Pine does
not display the header "TO:"?

					Thanks in advance.

						Jaime Pina

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 10:16:27 +0000 (GMT)

A better solution (one that will help everyone who receives the message,
not just yourself) is to ask the people who send out the message to
distibute it by listing the recipients' e-mail addresses in the "Bcc:"
field rather than the "To:" field.

This will hide the list of recipients in each delivered copy of the
message.

Note that it is highly advisable to include at least one valid e-mail
address in the "To:" field when using using "Bcc:".  Otherwise some mail
delivery programs continue to list all the recipients as a series of
"Apparently-to:" headers.  (Sigh.)

Cheers,

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From: "Robin S. Socha" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 11:58:04 +0100 (CET)

>This will hide the list of recipients in each delivered copy of the

IMVHO, this problem is calling for a filtering program. The simplest
solution would be to check the mail for a regexp containing the name of the
list and strip the rest of the to: field. You might also cat it into the
body of the message so that you can still see who the message was intended
to got to, too.

Check Nancy McGough's filtering FAQ at:
	http://www.jazzie.com/ii/faqs/archive/mail/filtering-faq/
        http://www.best.com/~ii/faqs/archive/mail/filtering-faq/
                    
In this case, I'd strongly suggest using procmail >;->, but that's just my
personal opinion.

Apart from that: Why are you sending mails with more than one cc: / bcc: --
that's not what a "list" is for, is it?

Cheers,
Robin

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From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 1997 17:59:02 -0500

> not display the header "TO:"?

    Quite seriously, the best thing you can do is instruct whoever is
sending you this monster how to do it right in the first place, so that
you don't have the problem.  With a list of addressees this long, the
sender should not put everydody's address in To:.  Teach the sender how
to use Bcc:, which should be available with most mail agents, Pine and
otherwise.  In such a case, the sender should not leave To: completely
blank: there are a couple of tricks to use, depending on the sender's
mail agent.  (Late versions of Pine and possibly other mail agents also
have an Lcc: option which can be used.)

    I am serious -- this should not be your problem.  The sender should
change his/her ways.  After all, if you disable seeing To: for this,
you will probably disable seeing it for all messages, which you may not
want.  The real problem is on the other end with a sender who does not
know how to do things properly.

Paul                             <[email-masked]>
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