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From: itkin@mrspoc.Transact.COM (Steven M. List)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Handling mailing lists?
Message-ID: <1991Jan29.204047.24843@mrspoc.Transact.COM>
Date: 29 Jan 91 20:40:47 GMT
References: <1991Jan28.213117.2793@javelin.es.com>
Reply-To: steven@Transact.COM
Organization: Transact Software
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pashdown@javelin.es.com (Pete Ashdown) writes:

>I'm trying to get elm to handle a rather large mailing list.  At first, I
>just put all the targets into one long line after the alias.  However,
>newalias informed me that the line was too long, and that it was possible
>to split it by using white-space at the beginning of each entry.  So I tried
>it.  Now the error message I get is to the effect of:
>** Bad alias name: user@machinename.domainname
>
>How do I get around this?  What is the proper way to format a large list?

Instead of using Elm, which will put all the addressees into the header
and probably aggravate at least half of them, use your MTA if possible.
That is, Sendmail or SMAIL or whatever.  You can put virtually unlimited
lists in with SMAIL, all referenced by a single list name within Elm.
Of course, this doesn't help if you don't have one of the MTAs, does it? %^}
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