From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/88448 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Define groups of recipients Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2019 13:42:48 +0100 Message-ID: <87tvg17juf.fsf@web.de> References: <87bm2c5jzc.fsf@web.de> <874l84199z.fsf@enricoschumann.net> <87ef78qh12.fsf@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="148693"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: ding@gnus.org To: Bob Newell Original-X-From: ding-owner+M36653@lists.math.uh.edu Sun Mar 17 13:43:50 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from lists1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.208]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1h5V8m-000cVh-8C for ding-account@gmane.org; Sun, 17 Mar 2019 13:43:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by lists1.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1h5V85-0006St-2y; Sun, 17 Mar 2019 07:43:05 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by lists1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.3:TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1h5V7y-0006Q5-HH for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 17 Mar 2019 07:42:58 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1h5V7w-0002lw-Mv for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 17 Mar 2019 07:42:58 -0500 Original-Received: from mout.web.de ([212.227.15.3]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1h5V7t-00078h-6I for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 17 Mar 2019 13:42:54 +0100 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=web.de; s=dbaedf251592; t=1552826571; bh=Aci+KAdvSPVV1a1pTsK9k4OB0NalKZEAe4Cm0NW2vIs=; h=X-UI-Sender-Class:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:Date:In-Reply-To; b=EZIfMrcp9xH/x/t5iJYoSeGGOoE9jTlOBgRgWWKJGXSvi88YSKmlVvB0gVXIgJgLs 33iujGALEaDQBHKtRHZ6/AV3p1nJpUEMFIcCFWQQA0bJuHt7Mtwdr1CHRKTaU7a97L jAQcZcT1V8G/l4rBw6JAwJOdm7+x8+keNCeRfehU= X-UI-Sender-Class: c548c8c5-30a9-4db5-a2e7-cb6cb037b8f9 Original-Received: from drachen.dragon ([88.67.111.211]) by smtp.web.de (mrweb002 [213.165.67.108]) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0MQf2z-1hSr0Z4325-00U14c; Sun, 17 Mar 2019 13:42:51 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Bob Newell's message of "Sat, 16 Mar 2019 14:42:39 -1000") X-Provags-ID: V03:K1:UVdPR4gmhmqIAC3aTzkO6UjlhbOFY+tfx/jptiY01JifjsYwWHs 7NqumLZthSqj+l4ayxvJOJnlIqROWRUCdPi8CgF2NPikGGFE1/LAC38tWeJ2wyz0eXajELk 9LmOYVZRR404bBaDKvK2GglE3wWufyGNatdctEdIOXsHHABsJwv1oWx8eiSr1x8tQOKLIkv DRwDOC2PZpNi+u84ijVoQ== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V03:K0:x648/KlZ8fY=:YqGU5iiOUXs8CrWuRqBGCH SKUsfago6MKXJRNB/TbuCqh/RfZpjPZe2NiCYHVALDeBeXM2ktfYhawq2JGPiSwAwuwLQ+NWS 81BUvUvXyiVtj4hbSZJ5tTF0GBV9kcdgRZwxGS9BT6Gr1CoU9ECiP7h+Wyo1gNgoyWPSwv5zR /YMh0Go2czti7Y/fm7s89qA164yLotTEUmxXjZTap0VbuF+q6KoJghga9GZVJOMWgjL6Yh4aG ooMqwJNJ44J+zE429VX0GI77e9ES8JoPKvNkWowE/ZONLVjW7Aw+31w/uYAleWVudDlg7SxhH BLYEE/Nd4PGQRsQLqOvfpxtDQ+Nom6vNcuWpUVtUGeyBANWlz7DiKQRn611iTgFLeBQDruu6/ BIqMj5e3E2VQrChKk6DiXGbD5e3Wm3EW02AgknoWXAG7ZU7pQ6Qy0Knnkn37DmNaozkds20RK c8JaDYysb4ivAQPWPTwqzZAArEtpHkXQROS9bySL27dRpFKFxlT+GeFPeNBzp4Ox96Y6XcZMl lFJAuXg2AnCQZouQxRVppUF4UjXZ4jr7PLP1Ad+SPuYrf+f1wcmilwYwhRjO4Zw8GA2K0pg1z yJEFOS49bloJ3vXwSW1vCd/lxNsIAjUCVuc1XM06afGd4soc6kaap2FF9XlBo4ift1+tVWvXr ff0dz50SEgRwoLAyIsuxfEncJjW/JFHz/dXOvnijxRFz0rGo2TX5odiw2AExUmxxKvrURZkDH lLDIsihIorDNXrE4CfiXPbHo6oIkMQ52j+i1c1iEMNJxqdY1Jx9nn7gFl6liZzHSn3jTtpxB List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:88448 Archived-At: Bob Newell 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.