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Hi there,

I was thinking, wouldn't it be nice if you could e-mail a whole group in a single mail?

Hi,

This was asked before...

But no, spamming would be made easier if such thing was added...

Also, not everybody in the group might want his email address to be exposed to the others.

And, not all MSN .NET Passports are used for emailing.

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
Asked before...
But no, spamming would be made easier if such thing was added...

Also, not everybody in the group might want his email address to be exposed to the others.

And, not all MSN .NET Passports are used for emailing.

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Too bad... didn't even think about the spam problem

And about the e-mail adresses being exposed BCC works just fine

That's true, not all the .NET passports are used for mailing, but still it could be handy.

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Originally posted by krazzi
Hi there,

I was thinking, wouldn't it be nice if you could e-mail a whole group in a single mail?

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If you're using a @hotmail.com address (possibly @msn.com too,) you can go to compost a new message in Hotmail and the groups from your contact list should be in the right column.

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Originally posted by Ddunk

If you're using a @hotmail.com address (possibly @msn.com too,) you can go to compost a new message in Hotmail and the groups from your contact list should be in the right column.

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Yeah that's true, but I have my own domain and I'm using Thunderbird, so I guess that won't be an option.

You can export a group into a CTT file, open it in WordPad or NotePad, delete the unnecessary tags and separate the emails with commas (,), saving it as a .cvs file.

Then, you can import it in your Thunderbird address book (Tools => Address Book => Tools => Import...).

Thats a

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
Also, not everybody in the group might want his email address to be exposed to the others.

And, not all MSN .NET Passports are used for emailing

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Was just thinking, there should be something to actually stop spam emails... e.g a popup when somebody trys to use your email with say 10+ others, to check if they want theyre email to be used. If theyre offline... an email should be sent direct to them saying "suchandsuch@hotmail.com tried to send an email to you along with many other emails...Would you like to accept?" And the person whos sending the email can send it to everybody who accepts, and to the offline contacts when they come online and accept.

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Originally posted by LittleK
Thats a

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
Also, not everybody in the group might want his email address to be exposed to the others.

And, not all MSN .NET Passports are used for emailing

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Was just thinking, there should be something to actually stop spam emails... e.g a popup when somebody trys to use your email with say 10+ others, to check if they want theyre email to be used. If theyre offline... an email should be sent direct to them saying "suchandsuch@hotmail.com tried to send an email to you along with many other emails...Would you like to accept?" And the person whos sending the email can send it to everybody who accepts, and to the offline contacts when they come online and accept.

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wtf thats a stupid idea

if you wanted to accept, its pointless and you have to read 2 emails to get the message, if you didnt want to accept (because its annoying) then you wouldnt want to be annoyed by this message

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Originally posted by Lee Jeffery
wtf thats a stupid idea

if you wanted to accept, its pointless and you have to read 2 emails to get the message, if you didnt want to accept (because its annoying) then you wouldnt want to be annoyed by this message

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If you didnt want the message, youd be annoyed by both messages, including the one you were sent. Wouldnt you like to have a choice?

And also, you could configure it to delete messages from certain people who send emails with over 10 email address' on. If you knew the people of course and knew they were famous for sending stupid emails. Just an idea

The idea itself, of doing something against spam, isn't stupid at all.

Unfortunatly, in practice, it doesn't work that way. A program, or anybody for that matter, can't control what an individual would do. If the individual want to spam, there is nothing which holds him/her back; a spammer is also not going to install a program which holds him back in spamming.

All we can do is to make it a bit more difficult and/or less obvious to use certain methods.

But the initial idea wasn't stupid at all