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From: Tom Stiller on 25 Nov 2009 16:45
In article <bob-A5BAF4.08043725112009(a)nntp.aioe.org>,
Robert Peirce <bob(a)peirce-family.com> wrote:

> Is there a way to organize Mail or Address Book so selecting a group
> will cause the To list to be in the desired order? My list seems to
> come up in the reverse order of the way it appears in Address Book
> except for a couple of exceptions that seem to get into the To list at
> random. I even get some names mixed in with sub-groups.
>
> This is only important for a couple of groups where there is a desired
> pecking order.

When sending to a group why not uncheck the "When sending to a group..."
checkbox in the Mail->Preferences->Composing pane?

As an aside what kind of an ego gets pricked when its name is out of
place in an email list?

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From: Nick Naym on 25 Nov 2009 18:56
In article tom_stiller-35401A.16453725112009(a)news.individual.net, Tom
Stiller at tom_stiller(a)yahoo.com wrote on 11/25/09 4:45 PM:

> In article <bob-A5BAF4.08043725112009(a)nntp.aioe.org>,
> Robert Peirce <bob(a)peirce-family.com> wrote:
>
>> Is there a way to organize Mail or Address Book so selecting a group
>> will cause the To list to be in the desired order? My list seems to
>> come up in the reverse order of the way it appears in Address Book
>> except for a couple of exceptions that seem to get into the To list at
>> random. I even get some names mixed in with sub-groups.
>>
>> This is only important for a couple of groups where there is a desired
>> pecking order.
>
> When sending to a group why not uncheck the "When sending to a group..."
> checkbox in the Mail->Preferences->Composing pane?
>
> As an aside what kind of an ego gets pricked when its name is out of
> place in an email list?



Those that are undeservedly large...and frequently belong to pricks. ;P


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From: Robert Peirce on 29 Nov 2009 12:19
In article <tom_stiller-35401A.16453725112009(a)news.individual.net>,
Tom Stiller <tom_stiller(a)yahoo.com> wrote:

> When sending to a group why not uncheck the "When sending to a group..."
> checkbox in the Mail->Preferences->Composing pane?

Thanks, Tom. I didn't know that existed and it solves the problem.

> As an aside what kind of an ego gets pricked when its name is out of
> place in an email list?

Mostly me. When I send to a group I want it to be in the correct order.
The recipients probably don't care one way or the other, or maybe they
do. Nobody has ever mentioned it.
From: Jochem Huhmann on 29 Nov 2009 16:12
Robert Peirce <bob(a)peirce-family.com> writes:
>> As an aside what kind of an ego gets pricked when its name is out of
>> place in an email list?
>
> Mostly me. When I send to a group I want it to be in the correct order.
> The recipients probably don't care one way or the other, or maybe they
> do. Nobody has ever mentioned it.

The best advice (which was already given) is to use Bcc. Whoever
receives the mail can feel important (because he got it) and still he
does not know who else got it and in which order. You can still add
"sent to 13 recipients" or even an ordered list of recipients if you
want to in the body of the email. Fighting the peculiarities of any
client software is just silly, don't waste your time with adding weight
to things like headers which were never meant to carry it.


Jochem

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From: Barry Margolin on 30 Nov 2009 02:46
In article <m2zl65qbmj.fsf(a)revier.com>, Jochem Huhmann <joh(a)gmx.net>
wrote:

> Robert Peirce <bob(a)peirce-family.com> writes:
> >> As an aside what kind of an ego gets pricked when its name is out of
> >> place in an email list?
> >
> > Mostly me. When I send to a group I want it to be in the correct order.
> > The recipients probably don't care one way or the other, or maybe they
> > do. Nobody has ever mentioned it.

How is Mail supposed to know the "correct" order? There's no inherent
order to group members, although Address Book will display them in
alphabetical order.

>
> The best advice (which was already given) is to use Bcc. Whoever
> receives the mail can feel important (because he got it) and still he
> does not know who else got it and in which order. You can still add
> "sent to 13 recipients" or even an ordered list of recipients if you
> want to in the body of the email. Fighting the peculiarities of any
> client software is just silly, don't waste your time with adding weight
> to things like headers which were never meant to carry it.

If this is corporate email, BCC probably isn't appropriate because it's
often necessary to use reply-all. BCC recipients won't be included in
reply-all.

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Arlington, MA
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