From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/26032 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Norbert Koch Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: address lists? Date: 25 Oct 1999 18:31:27 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <87u2nhr8h3.fsf@twocups.sirinet.net> <7z904rg34m.fsf@mispel.ii.uib.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035163316 17286 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:21:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:21:56 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from bart.math.uh.edu (bart.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.48]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA21814 for ; Mon, 25 Oct 1999 12:32:15 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by bart.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAB22494; Mon, 25 Oct 1999 11:32:11 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 25 Oct 1999 11:32:30 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA16032 for ; Mon, 25 Oct 1999 11:32:18 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from apollonius.eai-delta.de (mail.delta-ii.de [195.180.229.162]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA21806 for ; Mon, 25 Oct 1999 12:31:43 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from KEATS.eai-delta.de (keats.eai-delta.de [192.9.200.85]) by apollonius.eai-delta.de (8.9.3/8.8.7) with SMTP id SAA01029 for ; Mon, 25 Oct 1999 18:31:28 +0200 Original-To: Ding Mailing List Mail-Copies-To: never X-Attribution: lykos X-URL: http://www.eai-delta.de X-Face: . writes: > I use BBDB for most things, but not for lists. Is there an efficient > way of making your list, or do you have to search on each of john, paul, > judy's names and enter the list entry manually? The nice thing about the > .mailrc is you simply type the lists in right there. It also makes > them fairly easy to manage. I'm not sure what you mean by "two lists" > since I only use the .mailrc for lists. I assume you already have a field mail-alias with your bbdb-records. Now, if you append the name of the (list) alias to the fields of those people in the list, you can type the list and get it expanded. Umpf, does this make sense? Norbert.