Creating Address Lists

The mm alias feature (i.e., the DEFINE commands) is adequate
only for very short lists.  Even with those, you have to 
enter the entire list again if you
make a small mistake.

A much better way within mm is to create a file in which you store the
addresss, one address per line, with a comma after each address except the
last.  You would need to use your editor (vi?  emacs?) to create this
file, and you would need to do this at the andromeda> prompt, not while
within mm.

Here's a file that I call .poets (without a blank first line): 

fmm1.cornell.edu@postoffice2.mail.cornell.edu (Fred Muratori),
jbussell@physio1.utmem.edu (john),
"Warren A Norgaard" <9650@ef.gc.maricopa.edu>,
MLLJORGE@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu,
ROBBINS@vax1.mankato.msus.edu,
# 70733.3212@compuserve.com,
JPM9243@venus.tamu.edu,
76340.3117@compuserve.com,
70474.2660@compuserve.com,
lcrew@andromeda.rutgers.edu


To send a message to all within this file, at an MM> prompt I enter

      s @.poets

The `@' tells MM> to look for the addresses in a file; `.poets' names 
the file.

Note that the 6th line begins with `#'; that mark tells MM to ignore
that line (but keeps the line around for me to restore when the poet
returns to email).

It is much easier to edit a file of this sort than to try to `define' an
alias.

I hope that this helps you with your task.

Enjoy MM>