On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 13:00, Jim Thario wrote: > Brad Kittredge wrote: > > > > How about using using aliases? It works beautifully for smaller lists. > > I've never used 400, but I can't imagine why it wouldn't work. > > > > If you have a comma delimited list of addresses, you could just paste > > them into /etc/aliases in this form: > > > > alias_name: name@xxxxxxxxxxxx, name@xxxxxxxxxxxx, ... > > > > You must run "newaliases" after you edit the file, then just send one > > email to aliases@yourmailhost and all the defined addresses get it. > > > > man aliases > > > > If you do take this approach, I recommend sending to: your email and > bcc: to the alias name. This way if anyone does a reply-to-all it won't > cause a massive reply explosion to everyone on the list. > Good point. In my case the replies going to everyone have always been a *good* thing. Also, you'd send your bcc to alias_name@yourmailhost instead of aliases@yourmailhost, as in the example I gave earlier. Doh... Sorry. -- Brad Kittredge <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
