Hi, Peter,

That is precisely what groups such as Yahoogroups, Googlegroups, Topica,
Smartgroups, and others were set up to accomplish.
Yes, people criticize their service, but the fact is that they do a FAR
better job of handling distribution lists than Outlook or any e-mail client.

David Grossman


----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Shkabara" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 2:23 AM
Subject: [PCSOFT] e-mail distribution list


> I use Outlook 2003 and know how to create a distribution list. The problem
I
> am running into is that I want the mail to be sent to all individuals as
BCC
> so that all of the e-mail addresses don't show up on the recipient's "To"
> line. A way to do this is to place the group in the BCC field, but then
> there needs to be a recipient in the To line.
>
> To avoid having a particular individual listed in the To field, I tried
> creating a dummy contact, say "Parish Members", but if I don't add an
e-mail
> address, Outlook refuses to send the message. If add a real address, then
> Outlook adds that address to the To line in addition to the text that I
want
> to show. Any way to get around this?
>
> I do have a solution - if needed, I can create a real e-mail address
called
> [log in to unmask], but I was wondering if there is another
> solution.
>
> A secondary question. Does anyone have a simple explanation of why
Microsoft
> has an "Address Book" AND a "Contact List" in Outlook? Seems that they do
> the same thing in different ways.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Peter

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