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Title:DOCUMENT T1.0
Notice:**New notesfile (DOCUMENT.NOTE) now available (see note 897)**
Moderator:CLOSET::ADLER
Created:Mon Feb 09 1987
Last Modified:Thu Oct 31 1991
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:897
Total number of notes:4397

389.0. "Why <CC>(name) ?" by COOKIE::JOHNSTON () Mon May 18 1987 18:48

I was just tinkering with the MEMO doctype, which I haven't used much 
before, and noticed that a CC distribution list uses this syntax:

<CCLIST>
<CC>(Jim Bob)
<CC>(John Boy)
<CC>(Rose Girl)
<ENDCCLIST>


Seems to me that parens should not be required for each <CC>, just as 
they are not required for each <LE>.

This is BL7 stuff, by the way.


Rose
T.RTitleUserPersonal
Name		DateLines
389.1consistency nitBUNSUP::LITTLETodd Little NJCD SWS 323-4475Tue May 19 1987 00:2513
Along the same lines, why isn't it:

<LIST>(COPY)         or        <LIST>(CARBON_COPY)

and 

<LE>Name1
<LE>Name2
<ENDLIST>

At least for consistency sake.

-tl
389.2CLOSET::ANKLAMTue May 19 1987 07:274
    
    sigh, an oversight.
389.3Methinks you need a holiday, but how about this?COOKIE::JOHNSTONTue May 19 1987 13:0928
Patti, m'dear, you sound *weary*.  Such is the plight of heros and 
reluctant messiahs.

Not to beat a dead horse, but assuming that you'll be looking at this in 
an upgrade, I'd like to offer two suggestions:

1.  Use either <list>(carbon_copy) or <cclist>, but do ask a few
    secretaries what they think because they'll have a better handle
    on the user-friendliness of the tags than anyone (I think).

2.  Continue to use the <cc> tag and allow it to accept 3 or 4
    arguments so that you can get a multiple column distribution list;
    very long distribution lists waste a lot of space when they are 
    one single column.

    name1   name2   name3   name4
    name5   name6   name7   namenn

    Keeping the <cc> tag will distinguish this type of list element
    from the generic, single-column <le>.  <cclist> is probably a
    better tag to keep with <cc> than <list>(carbon_copy) (my opinion
    only).
   
    Of course, the user must take responsibility for alphabetizing 
    the list, unless that's a automatic capability you can provide.


Rose