Mail list exceptions
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorsDaja Phillips, Kurt Piersol
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for sending messages to a list of members of a group with exceptions to one or more members of the group. In one embodiment, the method comprising creating an electronic mail (email) message having an email address corresponding to a group of email addresses and including a specification of one or more email addresses of the group that is not to be sent the email message, without knowledge of addresses of all members of the group, and sending the email message for delivery to a mail host for the group address.
Claims18
A method comprising:
- creating an electronic mail (email) message having an email address corresponding to a group of email addresses and including a specification of one or more email addresses of the group that is not to be sent the email message, without knowledge of addresses of all members of the group;
- sending the email message for delivery to a mail host for the group address.
An article of manufacture having one or more recordable media storing instructions thereon which, when executed by a system, cause the system to perform a method comprising:
- creating an electronic mail (email) message having an email address corresponding to a group of email addresses and including a specification of one or more email addresses of the group that is not to be sent the email message, without knowledge of addresses of all members of the group;
- sending the email message for delivery to a mail host for the group address.
A method comprising:
- receiving an electronic mail (email) message having an email address corresponding to a group of email addresses and including a specification of one or more email addresses of the group that is not to be sent the email message, without knowledge of addresses of all members of the group;
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- forwarding the email message to all email addresses in the group except the one or more email addresses if the one or more addresses are in the group of email addresses.
An article of manufacture having one or more recordable media storing instructions thereon which, when executed by a system, cause the system to perform a method comprising:
- receiving an electronic mail (email) message having an email address corresponding to a group of email addresses and including a specification of one or more email addresses of the group that is not to be sent the email message, without knowledge of addresses of all members of the group;
- forwarding the email message to all email addresses in the group except the one or more email addresses if the one or more addresses are in the group of email addresses.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.