Re: address lists?

[Colin Rafferty <craffert@ms.com>]

Jody M Klymak 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?  

Unfortunately, you have to add it manually for each entry in your
list.

> The nice thing about the .mailrc is you simply type the lists in
> right there.  

However, you have to know the email addresses of each of the people
that you want to put in your list.  This means that you have to look
them up anyway in bbdb.  At least, that's my view.

> It also makes them fairly easy to manage.  

To see the list `mylist' just type:

        M-x bbdb-notes RET mail-alias RET mylist RET

There's everyone in your mailing list, along with all the nice notes.

One problem with the .mailrc method is if one of the people on your
list changes addresses.  You now have to make the change in both .bbdb
and .mailrc.

-- 
Colin Rafferty
BBDB Evangelist