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- From: tillman@swdev.si.com ("Brian Tillman, Smiths Industries, VAX Support, x8425")
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: VMS 5.5: forwarding to a distribution list
- Message-ID: <009656B0.EE4AA2E0.16827@swdev.si.com>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 17:07:21 GMT
- Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
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- Organization: The Internet
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- Jim A. Whitfill (whitfill@meediv.lanl.gov) writes:
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- >define mail_list "@disk:[dir]mail_list.txs"
- >
- >then mail
- >to: mail_list
-
- in response to:
-
- >Is it possible with regular old VAX MAIL to forward to a distribution list?
- >(a'la @mylist) I seem to get errors, complaining that it is an invalid user
- >specification, and I'd like to know if I can get past it, or if it just doesn't
-
- You didn't read the question. The person didn't ask if it is possible to mail
- to a distribution list. He knows how to do that, as can be seen from the
- original question. He asked if it is possible to *forward* to a list. The
- answer to that is "no".
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- Brian Tillman | Internet: tillman@swdev.si.com
- Smiths Industries, Inc. | tillman_brian@si.com
- 4141 Eastern Ave., MS129 | Hey, I said this stuff myself.
- Grand Rapids, MI 49518-8727 | My company has no part in it.
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