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From: edh@ux.acs.umn.edu (Eric D. Hendrickson)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Expanding local aliases
Message-ID: <3112@ux.acs.umn.edu>
Date: 24 Jan 91 17:08:59 GMT
Reply-To: edh@ux.acs.umn.edu (Eric D. Hendrickson)
Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
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Hi, we are running elm 2.3 patchlevel 8 here, and I have some questions
about the aliasing.  I have an alias "tome", which is defined as the
following:

tome = Jimmy Page = tome

Yes, he is a user on my own machine.  When I use this alias, I was getting
the message "Couldn't expand system tome" at the bottom of the screen, but
it worked okay.  Now, today, after trying to set an alias for a mailing
list (also on this machine) like this:

zeppelin = Led Zeppelin Mailing List = zeppelin

This didn't work at all, when I tried it out elm would say To: ??? rather
than zeppelin, and so I tried this:

zeppelin = Led Zeppelin Mailing List = zeppelin@ux.acs.umn.edu

Which did the exact same thing, and now the tome alias does this also.

Is there anything I can do about this?  Anything that can be done about
this?

Thanks for your help,
		--Eric
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