Subject: address question

From: Leslie Fairall <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 23:44:05 -0500 (EST)

Is there a command to write a message to everyone in your address
book? I know you can highlight a person'[s address and compose to them,
but it seems like you ought to be able to send a message to everyone in
your addressbook at the same time.

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From: ADAM Sulmicki <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 00:12:58 -0500 (EST)

> your addressbook at the same time.

Had this been implemented, you would call it with 'S' key and the
"feature" would be called 'Spam'.

However, I recall that pine allows you create 'Distribution Lists'.
so if you have a group of people to whom you need to send regularly.
I would suggest to create a distribution list.

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From: "Eduardo Chappa L." <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 22:47:38 -0800 (PST)

*** Leslie Fairall wrote in the pine-info list today:

:) Is there a command to write a message to everyone in your address
:) book? I know you can highlight a person'[s address and compose to them,
:) but it seems like you ought to be able to send a message to everyone in
:) your addressbook at the same time.
:) 

Yes you can, go into your addressbook, press the ";" key to select (I
assume that you have [X] enable-aggregate-command-set already in your
configuration), press A to select "all". After that press the letter A to
"apply" and press the letter "C". This will put all the addresses in the
To: field of your message. I recommend you that if you have a big
addressbook that you delete all these entries from the To: field manually
using ^K and putting them in the Lcc: or Bcc: field with ^U (the Lcc: and
Bcc: field appear after you press the ^R key).

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From: Leslie Fairall <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 04:39:41 -0500 (EST)

Hi:

Thank you for your polite answer. This raises another question. What is
the purpose of the lcc: field? Is is similar to bcc?

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From: "Eduardo Chappa L." <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 01:53:20 -0800 (PST)

*** Leslie Fairall ([email-masked]) wrote today:

:) Thank you for your polite answer. This raises another question. What is
:) the purpose of the lcc: field? Is is similar to bcc?
:)  

No problem. The Lcc: field as well the Bcc: field are designed to send
messages to other people without the recipients knowing who received the
message besides him/herself. The only difference is what is shown in the
To: field of the recipient. If you use Bcc: this one will say "Undisclosed
Recipients" (unless you change it) and if you use Lcc: it will say the
name of the list that you sent it to (like "my family" or something like
that). Usually Lcc: is used for addresses that are already in your
addressbook, so now that I think about it, I guess you should use the Bcc:
field instead.

  There is also an online help for every field. Just move the cursor to
the field that you need help on, and press ^G.