Re: Distribution lists

On 14 Apr 2017 Richard Mellish  wrote:

> Richard Porter <ricp@...> said:


[snip]

>> The trick is to put all the addresses on your distribution list in
>> your address book and give them aliases. Then you use the aliases in
>> your distribution list.

[snip]

> That would indeed avoid the problem. Presumably one could just copy
> each name from the Name field in the address book to the Alias field,
> which is easy enough with recent version of RISC OS that allow
> copy-and-paste in writable icons.

You'd need to be careful. Aliases must be unique for a user; names 
don't have to be. The alias is supposed to be a short form. I'm not 
sure if spaces are allowed but I've always kept aliases to a single 
word. The help manual doesn't rule it out though.

> Or use !CSVamp to do that automatically on the whole address file
> (having first created a backup).

> But replacing all the actual addresses in the distribution lists would
> be rather more work.

Yes, if you have to modify an existing list. You could use a 
sequential code for the alias, e.g. dl001, dl002, etc.

> Richard

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