🚀 go-pugleaf

Both the problem of BCCs and of recipient lists can be dealt
with reasonably by having the "header template" creator include
all of the addressees (all members of the group, all BCC entries)
in the header as seen within the editor, and then "hiding" the
appropriate entries as the header is parsed to create the envelope.
The only difficulty is how to separate those groups whose members
the user wants seen from those whose recipient list is to be hidden.
Our choice was to hide all group recipient lists, since people did
not seem to be using any group names in situations where the recipient
list was wanted.  Another possibility would be a syntactic distinction
(e.g. a * instead of a : after the group name) between the two uses.

The only problem this seems to leave is that the user might edit a
group recipient list which gets hidden, yielding misleading information
about who the recipients were.  Since group names really have no
semantic meaning from a recipient's viewpoint anyhow, this seems mute.

Is there a side to this problem I've missed?

- Dave

     David Alpern
     IBM San Jose Research Laboratory, K65/282
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