Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jolly Roger Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: Lost Mail Function Date: 10 Mar 2015 17:29:13 GMT Organization: People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: <201503092136448615-jerryf@pipeline.com> <2015031013180422388-jerryf@pipeline.com> X-Trace: individual.net yNoFaydzIj9q5BTYNmH43g9xnPDbsNINDAQId793Qfo5hDWxQ/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:qydrw6bwXYLoxp4bS6OIkRCOy8Y= X-Face: _.g>n!a$f3/H3jA]>9pN55*5<`}Tud57>1Y%b|b-Y~()~\t,LZ3e up1/bO{=-) User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Darwin) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.apps:28110 On 2015-03-10, Jerry Fensterstock wrote: > On 2015-03-10 13:23:39 +0000, JoeyDee said: > >> On 2015-03-10 03:07:54 +0000, Jolly Roger said: >> >>> Nah. That's what contact groups are for. If I have a contact group >>> called Family, all I have to type is "fam" and Return and everyone >>> "Family" is automatically added to the "To" field. >> >> I think one of the points here is that not everyone in the group should >> receive this particular message, but only a subset of the group itself. >> >> In that case I would then delete from the address field the ones that >> shouldn't be getting this message, but that's kind of klunky too. > > The net is that Apple should have left the function in, and let the > users decide how they want to do these tasks. That's debatable. It may very well be that Apple knows this feature is not used by enough people to justify keeping it around. Perhaps if enough people care enough to contact Apple and give them feedback about it, they'll see fit to add the feature back. And in the mean time, there are other more efficient ways to do the same thing anyway. -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR