sascmc@unx.sas.com (Chris Conn) (05/30/91)
I have a mailing list (The Dead Runners Society) that I run by receiving messages from members and then forwarding them out to an alias list. At first I just mailed them directly to the list but as the group got bigger I started sending the messages to myself and then sending Bcc's (blind carbon copies) to the group. That way they didn't see everybody's name. My question is this: is there a way I can mail To: an alias list and have the receivers not see all of the names on the list? Thanks for any info, -- Christopher Mark Conn | Keep your hands open, and all of the sands of the sascmc@unx.sas.com | desert can pass through them. Close them, and all SAS Institute, Inc. | you can feel is a bit of grit. Austin, Texas | - Taisen Deshimaru
bill@camco.Celestial.COM (Bill Campbell) (06/02/91)
In <1991May30.163650.6483@unx.sas.com> sascmc@unx.sas.com (Chris Conn) writes: >I have a mailing list (The Dead Runners Society) that I run by receiving >messages from members and then forwarding them out to an alias list. > >At first I just mailed them directly to the list but as the group got >bigger I started sending the messages to myself and then sending Bcc's >(blind carbon copies) to the group. That way they didn't see everybody's >name. > >My question is this: is there a way I can mail To: an alias list and >have the receivers not see all of the names on the list? > IMHO the best way to handle mailing lists like this is using an MTA like smail rather than depending on Elm's aliasing. I use smail2.5 here to distribute/redistribute several mailing lists. The advantages to me are: 1. The alias files are simple ascii files that can easily be updated from a database. I don't have to run ``newalias -g'' every time I add/delete from the list. 2. Smail2.5 allows aliases to include files with the complete list and the include file is only read when the alias is used. This makes the alias file much smaller (thus faster to search). 3. I can use full name aliases rather than having to remember a specific alias. For instance, this is useful to me when I want to send mail to a particular member of the Seattle Unix Group I just send the mail using an address Bill.Campbell, Ray.Jones. 4. If a person has both e-mail and fax, I can send a fax by using the address fax.George.Clute (or fax.g.clute) since I build the full name alias file with fax as the first name (fax!12062329186!Bill_Campbell fax Bill Campbell) 5. These alias files are accessible to any program sending mail including fastmail. I only have to maintain one alias file rather than several. 6. When I mail to the list, Elm saves the posting in ~Mail/<listname> where <listname> is much simpler than some e-mail addresses (I send faxes by using an address fax!<phone_number>!Recipient_Name!... which drives Elm crazy) 7. The To: line is simple. Bill -- INTERNET: bill@Celestial.COM Bill Campbell; Celestial Software UUCP: ...!thebes!camco!bill 6641 East Mercer Way uunet!camco!bill Mercer Island, WA 98040; (206) 947-5591