Re: Setting up mailing list with Yarn

0 (gro.oi@mt)
Wed, 09 Oct 1996 07:45:25 -0400

Mon, 07 Oct 1996 19:51:19 +0000, jim.holcomb@pobox.com (Jim Holcomb) wrote:
>send out mailings to a user group that I belong to and would prefer not
>to hae a To: header with 20 or 30 email addresses in it.
>
>Is there a simpler way to do this?

There's no pretty way I know of. You could use Bcc: instead of To:, taht
way at least the recipients only see themselves in the To: field. Although
your ISP may not find it fun grinding out all the copies of the message,
depending how big your list is.

If you are using Yarn/2 (which i think you are) and YEP with it you could
maintain a list of email addresses in a text file. Put one address per
line, with a TAB in front of it, and i think you'll need a comma at the end
of each. Then in your YEP.cfg create a substitution code something like
this (angle brackets should be curly brackets):

"-my-list-"::"<impf:c:\somepath\mylist.txt>"

Now when you want to send out a message to your list in Yarn write Mail as
usual, address it to yourself, and in the Bcc: field put -my-list-. Yep will
then see the "-my-list-" and import the given file wich is the list of
names into the header at the point of the Bcc. Your header will look quite
a mess on your end, but it should work. Headers can go over multiple lines,
in this way. Anyhow you could give it a try. (-: i can't guaranty it.

Another possiblity if you are at all familiar with REXX there is a TEXT to
SOUP rexx script which could be hacked... it's called SoupPost. You can
find it somewhere on my pages...

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