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Originally posted by Regexp
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...).

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Didn't know this... thanks for the tip... I'll give it a try!


If people would really like to spam, they could easily use the CTT file to spam. It would be even easier to write a program which uses a template and parses the CTT file and mass mails the whole list since it's XML.

I really think it's a pity Messenger Plus! doesn't have a function like this.

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Originally posted by krazzi
I really think it's a pity Messenger Plus! doesn't have a function like this.

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Dont you think messenger plus would get too full with little add ons like this? Use the space wisely i say.

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Originally posted by krazzi
If people would really like to spam, they could easily use the CTT file to spam. It would be even easier to write a program which uses a template and parses the CTT file and mass mails the whole list since it's XML.

I really think it's a pity Messenger Plus! doesn't have a function like this.

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yes they could do that. But no, most don't bother to do it because it takes many steps to do it (or some programming skills to make it automatically). This is the whole point; adding features like this makes things a lot easier for spammers and thus are potentially harmfull (not to mention for the average user it isn't that usefull at all).

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Originally posted by CookieRevised

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Originally posted by krazzi
If people would really like to spam, they could easily use the CTT file to spam. It would be even easier to write a program which uses a template and parses the CTT file and mass mails the whole list since it's XML.

I really think it's a pity Messenger Plus! doesn't have a function like this.

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yes they could do that. But no, most don't bother to do it because it takes many steps to do it (or some programming skills to make it automatically). This is the whole point; adding features like this makes things a lot easier for spammers and thus are potentially harmfull (not to mention for the average user it isn't that usefull at all).

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That's true. But thanks again for all the help, exporting the contact list to a CTT file and importing it un Thunderbird saves me a lot of trouble!

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Originally posted by Ddunk

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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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Correct, both of those address mean you have mail. But, to conteract Cookie's quote, it doesn't matter unless you have an @passport.net or @messengeruser.com account. Else, it will just get forwarded to whatever mail system they use

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Originally posted by Concord Dawn
But, to conteract Cookie's quote, it doesn't matter unless you have an @passport.net or @messengeruser.com account. Else, it will just get forwarded to whatever mail system they use

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How is that conteracting anything I said? Besides, a @passport.net or @messengeruser.com mailing system doesn't exist yet, but they might be in the futur. So saying that by using those you can't get spam is only temporarly and even isn't a valid reason at all to add a kind of mass mailing option.