Re: Thunderbird Group Limitation?

Hi Jim,

Fyi, I'm using Thunderbird 6.0.2 with Lightning extension (not plugin)
and it works just fine.

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On 9/9/2011 7:42 AM, Jim Oberholtzer wrote:

> Jerry,
>
> The answer to your question is, no there is not a limit on how many
> (certainly more than 50) contacts can be in a group. My first thought
> is to be sure you are running a more current copy of Thunderbird, at
> least 5.0, that's what I use. Thunderbird 6.0 does not support the
> current version of Lightning, the calendar plug in.
>
> If you are synchronizing your contacts with another source, such as
> Google Mail, then the synchronization program may be the problem because
> the update on the other end does not work. I have had that happen
> several times.
>
> Jim Oberholtzer
> Chief Technical Architect
> Agile Technology Architects
>
>
> On 9/9/2011 9:30 AM, Bob Crothers wrote:

>> Jerry,
>>
>> I run several groups with differing levels of activity, all using Google
>> Groups:http://groups.google.com/
>>
>> It is easy and it's free! Not suitable for Midrange.com, but for a list of
>> a couple hundred it is great!
>>
>> Bob Crothers
>> www.BJsBariatrics.Com
>> ------------------------------------------
>> “The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we
>> miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.”
>> - Michelangelo
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 10:13 AM, Jerry C. Adams<midrange@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>

>>>> I maintain a mailing list for my old high school class in Thunderbird. My
>>>> ISP considers any email with> fifty [50] CC: and BCC: entries to be spam
>>>> so
>>>> I broke the list down into several groups.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> When we find an old alum, I add them as a contact and then try to copy them
>>>> to one of the groups (I have four [4] so far). Occasionally, though, even
>>>> though it looks like the contact was copied to the seledcted group (no
>>>> error
>>>> messages), the contact does*not* get added. So Itry another group and the
>>>> copy usually works - eventually.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I was just wondering if TBird has a limit to the number of contacts that
>>>> can
>>>> be part of a group? I keep the list at home and am at work right now, so I
>>>> can't count the number of contacts in each group until this weekend.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Jerry C. Adams
>>>>
>>>> IBM i Programmer/Analyst
>>>>
>>>> The secret for long life is don't smoke, don't drink, and don't eat too
>>>> much. The secret of happisness is - ignore the previous secret.
>>>>
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