Re: Mailing lists

From: Mark (woody@interactive.remove.this.net)
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 10:32:10 -0600

In article <w2JOz0X8F5Xa090yn@inorbit.com>,
kataman@inorbit.com (Kataman) said something like:
> Just wondering if it is possible to setup mailing lists with Yarn. I'd
>like to be able to setup groups, so that I could select one name, say "gabo" and
>have the message sent to everyone in the group. Also, I'd like it to work like
>many mailers, it would show in the "to" line as "To Gabo" rather than the whole
>list of members.

While you can't do this exactly with yarn, what you CAN do is set up the
mailing list (using F2 or a text editor), and use BCC. Send the email to
yourself (or "Gabo") and BCC the alias for the list. That is, if the alias
for the listmembers jim@myco.com, bob@yourco.com, and fred@school.edu were
called "gabolist" in the address book[1], you could send he email to Gabo (or
yourself),and put "gabolist" in the BCC line.

Programs that mess with the To: field in an emai or newsgroup post violate
Internet RFCs, and may nt be properly propogated to where you want them.

[1] Gabolist would look like this in the addressbook:

Gabolist: "Jim" <jim@nyco.com>, \
"Bob" <bob@hisco.com>, "Fred" <fred@school.edu

>
>--
>Marc "Kataman" Lombart
>Montreal, Canada
>

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Mark                woody@interactive.net      mw4j@andrew.cmu.edu
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