Vista - Can't nest WLM's categories like OE's groups?

hi, when managing contacts in oe i was able to group contacts and then create
email distribution lists from multiple groups - a very powerful feature. in
wlm, the categories feature is completely flat - no nesting possible. I'm
using 14.0.8050.1202

"thnewton" <thnewton@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:35AC1FCE-CCF2-49BD-AB58-6C559995A868@xxxxxxGroup nesting is one of the admirable features of OE that unfortunately
didn't survive the transition to WLM.
I personally am very happy the crippled OE message store didn't either.


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remember the darn question

WLM has groups, which are mail lists.
It doesn't have any other organization methods.


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"thnewton" <thnewton@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:35AC1FCE-CCF2-49BD-AB58-6C559995A868@xxxxxx

The OP says he uses v. 14, which doesn't have 'groups' - it has
Categories, a rose by any other name. But that doesn't mean that 'it
doesn't have any other organization methods.' Here are two
suggestions:
(1) Be creative with Nicknames. Give all your tennis mates nicknames
like T Andy, T Bill, T Charlie. All your workmates get nicknames
like W Charlie, W Dave and W Eddie. Then, when you want to mail your
tennis team, type 'T ' in the To: field and all your tennis contacts
will appear ready to be picked from. Charlie can easily figure in
both lists. If all your T contacts belong to a category called
Tennis, then you can just start typing 'Tennis' in the To: field. If
you want to exclude some from a particular mailing, a click on the
'+' sign will reveal all the contacts in that category; just delete
the appropriate ones.
(2) For even more segregation, use Live IDs to set up separate lists
of contacts for work, family, hobby or whatever. These again can
contain duplicates, but they won't synchronize. That means that if
Charlie gets a new phone number, you'll have to change it in each
list that he figures in. It's quick and easy to change your sign-in
ID, and the moment you've done so, the contacts associated with that
ID will be available.

There are other possibilities, too, but that will do for now.
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Noel

"Dave" <dave@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:OCUfVOtaJHA.4820@xxxxxx

Oh my, Ildhun. Creative, yes. but you cannot be serious. "TJNGBFWR Tom!!!!?
" ;-] Face it, without the ability to nest groups, wlm's contact management
and communications capabilities are limited compared to oe...

"Ildhund" <jnllb@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:eE1zHgtaJHA.4480@xxxxxx

I wouldn't know about OE's contact management, so I have difficulty
'facing it'. I'm also quite serious - the systems I describe have
served me well since I started using WLMail in the summer of 2006.

I'm not quite sure what you mean by 'nested group', but if it
means - as your OP suggests - a group of contacts harvested from
other existing groups, then I don't see why you can't do just that
in WLMail as well. Perhaps you'd care to explain.

If the functions available in WLMail don't fit your requirements,
then you might shell out for Outlook - a fully fledged Personal
Information Manager which WLMail has no pretensions to be.
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Noel

"thnewton" <thnewton@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:4D6F4C47-F014-4E30-8FC3-0A06813458B2@xxxxxx

Hi, at the top of thread, GbH told me "Group nesting is one of the admirable
features of OE that unfortunately didn't survive the transition to WLM."
That sums it up.

"thnewton" <thnewton@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:BABDD82E-D684-45BF-9635-18CFD61BF416@xxxxxxYes, I noticed - but that doesn't explain what it does, and why you
can't do it in WLMail.
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Noel