For long email recipient lists: a slash (/) before the name means: DONT SEND TO...
e.g. In the To: textbox you put: MyCompanyGroup //Albert

That way even if the name somehow mistakenly entered the list, it will be removed.

Two advanced features would be:
a. When a slash is detected, always show a popup with the full list of names, mark names removed with a strikethru font, allow editing, and ask if we wish to continue.

b. "Did you mean...": Optional setting for names _SIMILAR_ to what you wrote, so that if you put /Pandansky it would highligh Pandanski in the popup. (You usually are not sure what the exact email of the people you DONT want to send to, is...
-- pashute, Sep 28 2008

!pashute, Shirley?
-- UnaBubba, Sep 28 2008


There could also be a "don't reply to" symbol so that if someone hits Reply All, they end up not.
-- phundug, Sep 28 2008


Good idea. Where I work, we sometimes get emails saying "Arthur is leaving; If you'd like to sign Arthur's leaving card, etc., etc." - and in order to send this to the 'global' email distribution list without Arthur seeing, his nme has to be removed from the list just to send this one email. [phundug]'s idea is good too - [+] for both of them.
-- hippo, Sep 29 2008



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