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From: ubiquity@cs.utexas.edu (Richard Hoffman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Nicknames and distribution lists
Summary: OK, I should have checked man first
Keywords: mail
Message-ID: <3084@cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 3 Aug 88 05:11:18 GMT
References: <3081@cs.utexas.edu>
Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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In article <3081@cs.utexas.edu> ubiquity@cs.utexas.edu (me, Richard Hoffman)
writes:
>What is the best way to set up nicknames for use with mail?  For example
>I would like to say "mail friend" instead of "mail friend@computer.domain".
>How about distribution lists?  That is, "mail party" instead of 
>"mail george paul ringo".

Thanks to the many people who took the time to tell me how to use .mailrc,
and even to those of you who politely suggested that I should have looked
at "man mail" first.  Sorry to ask such a dumb question: somehow, I was
convinced that the answer would be complicated and would have nothing to
do with mail itself, so it didn't occur to me to start with man.
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