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Outlook 2003 Distribution List Private?

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by mariolanajmi

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Does anyone know how I can send email in Outlook 2003 to my Distribution List without all my contacts being seen by everyone? In other words, I need to make my distribution list private.

Thanks so much

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by rdionicio

You can look into creating a query based distribution list.

by alvie.grant

You can set someone like Admin as the TO: and then Distribution list as BCC.
That way only the to address is seen by any and all recipients.

Hope this helps

Alvie Grant
Murray State University

by kpatel

In outlook, goto tools, addreess book, create new entry and choose new distribution lists.
Step 1
Created the list with all the email addresses of all recipients.

Step 2
At the time of sending out an email, send the email to your own email adress and in the bcc add the distribution list name that you created in step 1

by sdaniel

All you have to do is send the email to yourself, and BCC your distribution list. They will all receive the message, but no one will see each other's address.

by nordlacs

This works fine if you are alert and paying attention. But it is not a blind distribution list! AOL let me create a blind list (or blind addresses in a list) so that I didn't have to remember to put the list in the BCC section. I don't see that Outlook 2003 lets me do this. I have several times exposed EM addresses that I didn't want to expose -- both to potential spammers and to others as the list belonged to a political group -- because I wasn't alert enough to put it in the BCC box. Is there a cure when you know you want the list to be blind?

by thumbsup2

Yes and no.

The cure is for you to pay more attention to what you are doing. BCC was invented to put blind copy into. If you can't remember to do that, there's no software in the world that can read your mind (yet).

So, no, there really isn't a 'cure'.

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