Hallo Jim, On Sat, 8 Feb 2003 14:27:53 -0500GMT (8-2-03, 20:27 +0100, where I live), you wrote:
JK> If what I'm reading makes sense, what you are both suggesting is JK> that I need to create a single address entry for anyone whose JK> email address I might want, Yes. JK> and then create a group, and then associate each individual email JK> address with the group. No, I'd go the other way around. Create a group and add members to it, but that's a minor issue. JK> For example, if a club I was associated with had 10,000 members, JK> and I wanted to send them all an email from the club - let's say JK> to tell them a meeting was cancelled due to a blizzard (which I JK> just did actually in Eudora), I would first have to individually JK> enter 10,000 email addresses to accomplish this? If that's the JK> case the blizzard would be over before I was done... :-> This JK> can't be true. Of course it isn't true. What you're suggesting is ridiculous. You wouldn't cancel a meeting with 10000 people via e-mail when you'd never mailed with them before. The concept is that you've got them in your address book (AB) and that you maintain your AB whenever there's a new member, a different address or a quitting member. JK> I couldn't just dump all of the email addresses from the database, JK> and paste them into a group somehow? Yes you could, depending on the database you've got those addresses in. It would mean that that you processed all those addresses to address book entries associated with a single group. JK> But Roelof's images raise another question. When TB converted my JK> Eudora address lists, it dropped each of the address books, which JK> each contained groups, I had under TBs 'The Personal Address JK> Book.' How do I move them out from under it? I tried cutting and JK> pasting with no success. Cut and paste works for me when transporting AB-entries from one group to another, so I suppose that's not what you meant. It's possible that the concept behind TB's and Eudora's ABs are so different that it's not possible to do a really good conversion. But let's start from the beginning. You've got a database with 10000 blizzard evaders. Can you export that list to a csv-file (csv = comma separated value), that means you've got a file that contains per member one line containing: first name, last name, e-mail address If so, export to that and import that into your AB First create the AB-group 'No more blizzards' Select that group and do File -> Import from -> Comma-separated That ought to do the trick. -- Groetjes, Roelof ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
