Subject: Distribution List ???

From: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 1997 15:11:08 -0500 (EST)

Hi!
I have a ASCII file that contains several thousand e-mail addresses (each 
address per line). I want to make this file as a distribution list of pine. 
It seems impossible to do this whithin pine.  Is there anyone who has some
suggestion ? Your help will be greatly appreciated.

Feng Wang

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From: Solstice <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 16:10:30 -0400 (EDT)

> suggestion ? Your help will be greatly appreciated.

VI-editor, EMACS ?  Format the "file" to mimic that of the addressbook and
then import the file into your addressbook.

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From: Robin S Socha <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 22:32:30 +0200 (CEST)

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Yo!

  >address per line). I want to make this file as a distribution list of
  >pine. It seems impossible to do this whithin pine. 

Yes, that's right.
  
  >Is there anyone who has some suggestion? 

Several people, my humble self among them. You could have checked the pine
archive, but among the solutions offered were:

	perl
	sed
	awk
	XEmacs
	10 iyfegh typists

It's not that hard to do. How much are paying for a good script? Hehehe >;->
  
  >Your help will be greatly appreciated.

Hmmm, yes, I sincerely hope that others will feel the same. "several
thousand" sounds menacing --- you are not by any chance embarking on a major
spamming campaing, are you?

Cheers,
Robin

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From: [email-masked] (Ramanuj Basu)
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 1997 22:20:30 GMT

Mail the text file to yourself by using CTRL-R to read it into the message
body.  When you have the message in Pine, read it, then switch to (T)ake
addresses mode.  Once in Take, switch to (L)ist mode, select (A)ll and
(T)ake the addresses, giving Pine a nickname to use for the list.  I don't
know if there's a limit on the number of names Pine can handle in a list.

Several thousand seems like an awful lot; I hope you're using this for
legitimate communcation and not for sending unwanted e-mail.