Thanks for all the quick replies...
summary is to use a mailing list manager, such as majordomo or LISTSERV.
Our university runs one so perhaps I'll see if it's easily maintainable by
them, or I'll go with a local flexible suggestion...
Put them into a file, one address per line, and then set up an alias in
/etc/aliases like this:
class: :include:/usr/users/teacher/class.list
Run newaliases and away you (should be able to) go..
or also brute force, but requires user to run on unix, instead of his
windoze client...script:
for person in `cat userlist`
do
mail $person < the_mail_txt_in_a_txt_file
done
Thanks!
--Dan
>I've got a user who wants to create a long alias to be able to send emails
>to (~300 students).
>
>What's a descent method other than brute force?
>
>I thought of aliases, but it seems to have a problem when the alias is more
>than 255 characters or so. Brute force would suggest making shorter
>aliases m1: userA, userB, userC m2: userX, userY, userZ... etc
>then concatenate those shorter aliases into a main alias
>101students: m1, m2, m3, etc.
>
>any better method?
>
>Thanks,
>Dan
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Computer Systems Manager
Department of Physics
Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
http://www.phy.syr.edu/~dkirk Fax: (315) 443-9103
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