Create email group in lotusscript and send email with members names hidden

We have tweaked the notes discussion group so that when a posting is made a set of subscribers are emailed an alert with a link to the current posting.

This all works fine but we suspect that if people get an email then some of them instead of following the link and creating another posting they will simply click ‘reply all’ and the thread of the conversation will be lost or at best become fragmented.

So, our solution is to stop them clicking ‘reply all’. I am aware that if you send an email to a group you can add a field called ExpandPersonalGroups and set it to “0” but my problem is how to create the ‘group’ on the fly in lotusscript ?

Here are some slices of my code:

’ get the email array information

’ MM subscribers

Dim mmsubscriberview As NotesView

Set mmsubscriberview = db.GetView("Vsubscribersmm")

Dim mmsubscribercount As Integer

mmsubscribercount = mmsubscriberview.entrycount

Dim mmsubscriberlist() As String	

Dim mmsubscriberdoc As notesdocument	

Dim mmcount As Integer	

If mmsubscribercount > 0 Then

	Redim mmsubscriberlist(mmsubscribercount-1) As String	

	Set mmsubscriberdoc = mmsubscriberview.GetFirstDocument			

End If

Set mmemaildoc = db.createdocument

				mmemaildoc.sendto = mmsubscriberlist

Thanks

Paul

Subject: create email group in lotusscript and send email with members names hidden

You don’t have to do that… why not just put the recipient names in the BlindCopyTo field, and have the To field be a default address, or a mailin database that does nothing but email them back saying they must reply in the discussion database?

Also, if you set the $KeepPrivate field to “1”, they won’t be able to reply with history, so maybe it will encourage them to use the doclink.