How do I suppress recipient names??

[Daniel]

Hi all,
I'm sending out a mass invitation to a party, and don't
want the individual names to show for each recipient.
They are saved in a contact folder called "Party". When I
type Party into the "to" line, the names expand.....how
do I just have to the To line read "Party"

Please respond to : daniel @30harry.com...as I have no
idea how to get back to this user group.

Thnaks in advance, and if you're in san francisco, maybe
i'll invite you :)
Cheers,
daniel

[Michael Santovec]

What mail program are you using?

Suggestions on using a mailing list in Outlook Express (Windows):
- In the Address book select New Group, give it a name (e.g. Bob's Mailing List BCC), and
then use Select Members to add the desired contacts to the group
- In the Address book select New Contact, give it a name (e.g. Bob's Mailing List) and
enter your own e-mail address
- When you want to send to the list, in the TO field select the "Bob's Mailing List"
entry and in the BCC field select the "Bob's Mailing List BCC" group. Recipients will see
"Bob's Mailing List" in the TO field (which looks better than "Undisclosed Recipients"
which sounds like spam, and may get filtered out by some ISP anti-spam filters), they will
not see the name or address of any of the people in the list and you will get a copy of
the message.
(With OE5+ you have to check the option to View, All Headers in a Mail composition window
in order to see the BCC field.)
Note: Your ISP sets the limit for the number of names per group. If you exceed their
limit, they will refuse to send the message. Check with them for their limit. Limits are
typically in the 10 to 100 range, with 50 being fairly common.

If you want each person's name, and only their name, to appear in the TO field, you need
to send a separate message to each person. That is the nature of mail on the Internet.
When you send one piece of mail to multiple people, they all get identical TO and CC
fields. The only way to get unique TO and/or CC fields is to send separate messages.
It's tedious to do that in OE. There are some bulk mailer programs designed for this.
You might try the shareware sites. There are links to shareware sites in the URL in my
signature. Also, Outlook2000 can do this as part of an e-mail/merge.

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Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm

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