Re: Define groups of recipients

[Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>]

Bob Newell <bobnewell@bobnewell.net> writes:

> > Ok, thanks.  Do I get it right that this approach involves to add an
> > individual contact for any person that should be part of the group?
> > Is there any way to avoid this?
>
> As others have pointed out, there are workarounds that I think
> in the end are not as good as using BBDB as designed. At
> first, adding a mail-alias for each user in a group may seem
> like a bit of a pain, and it is, but ultimately it is much
> easier to maintain when members enter and leave a group. It is
> very simple to call up a BBDB record and add or remove an
> alias.
>
> It would be possible to do some coding to accept a list of
> email addresses and add an alias for each one, but unless you
> have dozens of members on the list that would likely take
> longer (although it would be reusable).
>
> On the other hand, I recently had a list of 50 to create and
> it took me around five minutes. I didn't think that was
> excessive.

Ok, thanks for your opinion.  Maybe I'll just do what you suggest.  BTW,
one problem is that I only have a list of addresses, I don't even know
the names of these people.  It feels a bit strange to add a record for
them.


Michael.