* David Ellement <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-09-24 23:21]:
> > then again, you did not describe the purpose of this idea
> > so i'm just wasting my time with guesses again.
> I suppose it is silly...
>
> I typically have a couple of projects going where I'm part of a small
> team here, working with another small team at another company.
>
> For each project, I have one engineer at the other company
> that is my principal contact; we have a list setup that
> includes all the members of both teams (and we usually have an
> internal list that includes just our company team members).
>
> The normal etiquette is to address messages
> directly to my contact, and copy the list.
as i understand it, the situation is something like this:
"our team": A1 B1 C1
"their team": A2 B2 C2
"me": A1
"my contact": B1
"list": A1 B1 C1 A2 B2 C2 =: L
and your mails to them would look like this:
From: A1
To: B1, L
so why not define an alias for "B1, L" then?
alias project [EMAIL PROTECTED], listaddress
and i do not see a need to put these addresses onto separate lines.
> Most of us handle related messages the same way: we dump messages
> addressed to us into our inbox (which we'll check often) and messages
> to the list into a list box (which we check once or twice a day).
> I could accomplish the same thing by just addressing the list,
> but it interferes with the sorting the urgent (to me) messages
> from the informational (to someone else on the team) messages.
i understand that the urgent messages will be from your contact person,
so you could simply copy messages "From: B1" to your inbox, too:
:0 c
* From:.*B1
* TOlistaddress
LIST
> Having my editor add the CC line is a reasonable solution.
an alias is much cleaner. ymmv.
Sven
