Subject: mailing lists

From: Josh Curnett <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 16:43:08 -0600 (MDT)

Pine support staff:
I want to set up a distribution list for a bunch of people I have in my
address book.  I read the Pine instructions which our computer lab gives
out, and it says there should be a "create list" command in my address
book.  There is not.  Is there a bug in my Pine?  Could you give me some
advice (concerning the address book only, please) as soon as possible?
Thanks.
--Josh Curnett
University of Colorado at Denver

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From: Robin S Socha <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 02:00:18 +0200 (MET DST)

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  >advice (concerning the address book only, please) as soon as possible?

There is no "create list" command in my docs, but there are basically two
things you might referring to:

a) list mode, so you can mail to several people on the fly:
	goto the address book and type l, then select the people you want.

b) Distribution lists:
	The docu on these is rather exhaustive, so you should get the
	original docs from the pine information centre:

		http://www.washington.edu/pine
	
	For now, here's a little something from the user guide:
	
	Lists in the Address Book
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------	
| Panel      1996 Conference Panel             DISTRIBUTION LIST:         |
|                                              [email-masked]          |
|                                              Ross                       |
|                                              [email-masked]            |
|                                              [email-masked] |
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
	
	Pine allows you to create distribution list entries in the address
	book. These list entries usually contain two or more addresses,
	which can be either complete email addresses, or nicknames defined
	elsewhere in the Address Book. In the example at the top of this
	page, the distribution list named 1996 Conference Panel contains -
	in addition to three "fully qualified" email addresses -- the
	nickname Ross, which is defined in the first entry of that Address
	Book. You can use an address book list entry to manage a small
	distribution list. When sending out a message, you just enter the
	nickname of the list in the To:, Cc: or Bcc: fields, and Pine fills
	in all the addresses on the list.

And from the faq:
        
The address field takes one of two forms, depending on whether the entry is
a single (simple) address or a distribution list. For a simple entry, the
address field is the email-address part of the address, i.e., the part that
goes inside the brackets (<>). It is combined with the fullname field to
form the complete address. For a distribution list, the <address> is in the
format:
      
	"(" <address>, <address>, <address>, ... ")"
           
Unlike the simple entry case, each of the addresses in a list can be a full
RFC 822 address with fullname included, or it may be just the same as in the
simple case. This way you can have a list which includes the fullnames of
all the list members. In both the simple and list cases, addresses may also
be other nicknames which appear in this address book or in one of the other
address books. (Those nicknames are searched for by looking through the
address books in the order they appear in the address book screen, with the
first match winning.) Lists may be nested. If addresses refer to each other
in a loop this is detected and flagged. The address will be changed to "****
address loop ****".
                 
     -------------------->snip here<---------------------------

This should get you going, right? :-)

Cheers,
Robin

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 10:02:07 +0100 (BST)

The "Create List" command in Pine's Address Book stems from older versions
of Pine, to which I suspect your documentation refers.  In Pine 3.95 you
just use the A (AddNew) command and then list the e-mail addresses in the
appropriate field.  It will will spot there is more than one address, and
automatically make a distribution list out of them.

Alternatively you can use the TakeAddress command to take addresses out of
one message (or more if you select them with the Select command) and
make/add to a list in your Address Book.

I have a vague feeling that you may need the
"enable-aggregate-command-set" option turning on in the Setup
Configuration screen before you can see/use TakeAddress, however I may be
mis-remembering.

Cheers,

-- 
Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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