I'll need to restate the question, since I'm unsure of the terminology - 
actually it's a two-part question. Here goes. Part 1) Say I have one hundred 
people in a distribution list, that I want to send a boiler-plate email to. 
For confidentiality purposes, I don't want one person knowing who the other 
persons are. Can I set the email transmission to show (at the recipient's 
end) only the recipients email address and name (and noone else's). Part 2) 
if the answer is yes, then can I customize each email to show the person's 
name (in the same fashion as I would do in a mail merge)?

I'm using Vista Operating System & Outlook Vers. 7.

Thanks,
AS

Use the Bcc field and put in the names of the recipients. The ones receiving it will 
not see the other peoples names

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"arnie582" <arnolds@juno.com> wrote in message 
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> I'll need to restate the question, since I'm unsure of the terminology -
> actually it's a two-part question. Here goes. Part 1) Say I have one hundred
> people in a distribution list, that I want to send a boiler-plate email to.
> For confidentiality purposes, I don't want one person knowing who the other
> persons are. Can I set the email transmission to show (at the recipient's
> end) only the recipients email address and name (and noone else's). Part 2)
> if the answer is yes, then can I customize each email to show the person's
> name (in the same fashion as I would do in a mail merge)?
>
> I'm using Vista Operating System & Outlook Vers. 7.
>
> Thanks,
> AS 

You need to use the BCC field for the distribution list if you want to hide 
the addresses. You can't customize the mails using a dl, you'd need to do a 
mail merge, which might be a good idea anyway.

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"arnie582" <arnolds@juno.com> wrote in message 
news:147704AC-BA57-4BC2-91FB-E75F99A32C7A@microsoft.com...
> I'll need to restate the question, since I'm unsure of the terminology -
> actually it's a two-part question. Here goes. Part 1) Say I have one 
> hundred
> people in a distribution list, that I want to send a boiler-plate email 
> to.
> For confidentiality purposes, I don't want one person knowing who the 
> other
> persons are. Can I set the email transmission to show (at the recipient's
> end) only the recipients email address and name (and noone else's). Part 
> 2)
> if the answer is yes, then can I customize each email to show the person's
> name (in the same fashion as I would do in a mail merge)?
>
> I'm using Vista Operating System & Outlook Vers. 7.
>
> Thanks,
> AS