From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/31818 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Fuchs Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Using aliases on Gnus. Date: 17 Jul 2000 19:04:33 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <87ya30ofha.fsf@dahaIM.dyndns.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035168186 16217 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:43:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:43:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from fisher.math.uh.edu (fisher.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.35]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AB8DD051E for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 13:07:15 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by fisher.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAC20519; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 12:07:04 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 17 Jul 2000 12:05:00 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA29039 for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 12:04:50 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from dahaIM.dyndns.org (csvr3216.noe-online.at [194.106.234.216]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB4F6D051E for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 13:05:21 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by dahaIM.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B7B302A508; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 19:04:33 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Jorge Godoy In-Reply-To: Jorge Godoy's message of "17 Jul 2000 13:28:27 -0300" Original-Lines: 32 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) XEmacs/21.1 (Capitol Reef) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:31818 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:31818 Today, Jorge Godoy wrote: > Hi! > How can I make gnus use some aliases? For instance I'd like to have an > alias "directors" where I can put all directors plus some other people > without having to create a mailing list (it's for my use only) or > without having to put each address on the message (I may forget > someone). The following functions might be of interest to you: bbdb-company, bbdb-notes bbdb-apply-next-command-to-all-records bbdb-send-mail bbdb-search I have found that the company field works amazingly well for this sort of thing. If you have people who can be members of >1 group, I recommend the use of a notes field. > Thanks, HTH. regards, -- Andreas Stefan Fuchs in Real Life aka asf@acm.org, asfuchs@gmx.at, asf@ycom.at in NNTP and SMTP, antifuchs in IRCNet and Relf Herbstfresser, Male 1/2 Elf Priest in AD&D