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Re: Problem with large aliases in mailx

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From: Dan Heller
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 1989 02:15
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In article <28509@pbhya.PacBell.COM> bgo@PacBell.COM (Bud Odekirk) writes:
> When I send a message to a mailx alias that has many userids in it (like 200)
> everyone that recieves the message see all of the userids on the "To:" line.
> Is there any way that I can suppress all of the userids and just show the alias name ?? 

In mush you can do this by setting "no_expand".  Anything you have on the To:
line remains untouched.

This is an often asked question by new mush users, so I thought I'd mention it.

dan <island!argv@sun.com>
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!apple!sun-barr!newstop!sun!eureka!argv
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!apple!sun-barr!newstop!sun!eureka!argv
From: argv%eureka@Sun.COM (Dan Heller)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.mush
Subject: Re: Problem with large aliases in mailx
Message-ID: <114962@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 12 Jul 89 02:15:31 GMT
References: <28509@pbhya.PacBell.COM>
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