Re: How do I make a "mailing list" and send to all those on the list

From: Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] (russval_at_mvps.org)
Date: 06/29/04 

Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:10:22 -0500

You need to clarify step 6.
Copy-paste the Junk Senders.txt where?

And, no. Outlook 2003 has not improved on this function. That's why only
third party software can do this. 

-- 
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Cris Fuhrman" <filmore@bigfoot.com> wrote in message
news:2622a29f.0406281531.d6d5482@posting.google.com...
> "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" <russval@mvps.org> wrote in message
news:<uZx#sj9VEHA.584@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl>...
> > Wrong. Outlook did not support DL's until Outlook 2000.
> > -- 
>
> I am using Outlook 2002 and found a way to create a distribution list
> (mailing list) from the names of all the emails in a folder. I have to
> do this often when I get responses to student job offers and want to
> communicate a response to all interested parties. It's easy to set up
> a filter to file in the same folder all the responses to a message
> with a certain subject. However, it's not obvious how to get the names
> of all these users into a mailing list, or even a one-shot reply to
> all the people in the folder.
>
> I even tried dragging and dropping the selected emails to the Contacts
> icon on the Outlook bar -- it opens a new user, however, the text of
> ALL the emails is inserted into the big text field on the General
> pane. Not exactly what I wanted. Not sure why they even bothered
> implementing that feature either! Does it add value? Perhaps it's just
> a side-effect of OO drag-and-drop... anyway...
>
> I saw that Outlook 2002 supports adding multiple users to a Junk Email
> Sender's list (why they didn't extend this to *any* arbitrary list, I
> don't know). In fact, I never use this feature (I use SpamPal which is
> free and much more effective than some static list that I have to
> build with each bad email I receive -- it's an obsolete feature given
> the tactics of spammers these days). If you do use these lists
> already, then the following method won't work for you :-(
>
> 1. Select all the emails in the folder that you wish to have each
> sender added to the distribution list.
>
> 2. Select Actions -> Junk E-Mail -> Add to Junk Senders list
>
> 3. Open the disk drive where your user preferences are stored (this
> depends on the OS you have, but on my XP system it was C:\Documents
> and Settings\aaaaaaa (where aaaaaaa is my username).
>
> 4. Open the find window (CTRL-F) and search for the file named "Junk
> senders.txt" within your user-preferences directory.
>
> 5. Open it as a text file with notepad, for example. It will contain
> the email addresses of the list you just added.
>
> 6. Create a new Distribution List in Outlook as needed, copy-paste the
> info from the Junk Senders.txt file.
>
> 7. Remove the list of users from the Junk Senders list, if ever you
> want to repeat this operation with a different folder.
>
> In fact, there are two .txt files (Junk Senders.txt and Adult Content
> Senders.txt) -- you could use one or the other if you already maintain
> a list.
>
> I'd be curious to know if Outlook 2003 supports this feature more
> directly. I'm still looking for a reason to upgrade to Office 2003
> from XP. The presence of bugs and security holes seems to outweigh the
> usefulness of the new features. I spend way too much time filing,
> filtering, looking for emails these days, so anything to help me with
> that would possibly convince me to take the risks of buggy or insecure
> software.
>
> A few weeks ago, Word 2002 crashed and the module that crashed had
> something to do with speech recognition -- a feature I don't use but
> which crashed my system. This is exactly the kind of thing I'd like to
> avoid.

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