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From: shire@csuchico.edu (Charles W Hooks)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Alias, clumsy or not?
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Date: 15 Jul 90 03:04:13 GMT
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	I curious as to how many people thing that the way elm handles alias 
is clumsy.  I've been involved with Chico State's local ACM club for a couple
of semsters now.  Every so often I find it necessary to get a message to all
our members, the easiest way is to create an alias that contains all the logins
of our members.  The problem is that we gain and lose members every semster for
various reasons.  If I want to change an alias for mailx I edit the file and
remove or add the login as the case may be.  But with elm I have to create a 
whole new alias(or redo) and with 30-50 logins that can be a REAL pain.  I
would love to see a change in elm to support the modification of aliases.
I'd also would like to have elm accept any charater as part of the login,
such as % so that I can use members who are at another site to our mailing
list.  This is the only reason I use mailx though, for all other purposes
elm is the better mailer!!


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