Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!vu-vlsi!dsinc!syd
From: syd@dsinc.UUCP (Syd Weinstein)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Multiply-defined alias
Keywords: alias
Message-ID: <48@dsinc.UUCP>
Date: 10 Jan 89 14:52:02 GMT
References: <11151@versatc.UUCP>
Reply-To: syd@dsinc.UUCP (Syd Weinstein)
Organization: Datacomp Systems, Inc., Huntingdon Valley, PA 19006
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In article <11151@versatc.UUCP> tran@versatc.UUCP (Tony Tran) writes:
>
>How does one create a mailing list under elm2.1. such as:
>
>r_d	=  R & D Group	= hostname!user1, hostname!user2
>
>I create an alias called r_d which consists of 2 users in 
>$HOME/.elm/aliases.text, run newalias, and everytime I send
>mail to this alias, elm bombed out.  Did I do something wrong ?

Yes you did, to paraphrase the Elm Alias Guide, a mailing list
must only consist of local names or prior elm aliases.  What
you did was to put unexpanded names into the mailing list.

The proper way is to state:

u_1 = User 1 Alias = hostname !user1
u_2 = User 2 Alias = hostname !user2

r_d = R & D Group = u_1, u_2

But even this needs a warning.  Berkley mail specs can cause ELm to
expand the & in R & D group to the capitalized login in name of the
user.  Either turn off that feature in the code, or don't use &'s.
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Sydney S. Weinstein, CDP, CCP                   Elm Coordinator
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