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to: Chris Maddock
from: Ron Amos
date: 1996-03-21 04:40:18
subject: CC:

RA>> I'm looking for a(n easy) way CC: Netmail to an entire net.  Any 
RA>> suggestions?

CM> Dunno about an "easy" way. I used Word4Windows last time.
Loaded the 
CM> Nodelist, marked out what I wanted as a block, exited the Nodelist, New 
CM> doc, pasted the info, made a table using "," as the
delimiter, deleted 
CM> unwanted columns, table-to-text, search and replace spaces as cr's, search 
CM> and replace on "_" and replaced with space.

CM> I want to see some of the other replies though. There's just gotta be an 
CM> easier way !

Thanks, Chris (and others) for that.  All responses I've received have been
pretty much to that point.  Of course, I was hoping for an easier, softer
way such as CC: 1:138/all and have it use the Nodelist.

I did about the same but blocked out everything but the leading ,### and
deleted it then replaced each "," with "SysOp!1:138/". 
It's not as nice because the name field gets the generic "SysOp"
but as seldom as I broadcast Netmail, it'll probably do.

I considered tossing the node segment, minus host, hub, down entries, as a
comma delimited file, into a database and have the report print out the 4th
and 1st fields with the needed additional "zone:net/" and
"!" (and translating any underscores to spaces).

I'd say "you get what you pay for" but in the instance of this
(and many other freely available apps), it would be so untrue and unfair to
the developers.  We're getting so many great features that, even without
one or two features that we might like included, we're fortunate to have so
many programmers giving their time, knowledge (and, usually, money) to our
mutual hobby.

 Ron
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