Friday, December 12, 2008

Run-time exclusion of members while sending email to a mailgroup.

Summary: If one wants to send an email to all the persons in a group except one or few people, One should be able to exclude one or few addresses from the group in the email recipient location itself.

For example: This is useful when there is a group which includes 100 people in it, and if one wants to send an email to whole group except one person. In such situation we have to either edit (if one can) that list and remove the email id of a particular person or let the mail go to the whole
group without excluding the person. Most of the groups don't give you permission to edit the email-group list so in that case you will have to add all 99 email ids from that group. which can be a bit time taking activity.

Even sending a Forwarded email to a group is not possible currently if the sender is member of the group. But with this invention, we would be able to send these kind of emails to the group excluding few members easily.

1. Amit (Amit@XYZ.com) gets a email from Ravi (Ravi@XYZ.com) both are members of the Email Group: XYZ@yahoogroups.com
2. Amit needs to forward the same to the rest of the email group members
3. He writes this in the "To" field of the email: XYZ@yahoogroups.com - [Ravi@XYZ.com]
4. Result is: The email is sent to the whole group MINUS Ravi

By doing this, one does not edit the group but the list of the recipients is edited at run-time while email is being sent with least efforts.

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