you can do that with a listing.

I want this feature! It is very cumbersome to PM more than one person at a time. I don't even care if the other folks actually show up on a cc list or anything. I just want the ability to send a simple PM to several folks without having to create a listing. Further, this gets into the issue of improving the friends views interface. Why can't we see all our friends on one page? Combine those two features and you'll have a winner...er, except for the people with 1,000 friends that put a load on the server. Maybe those folks should get pre-caches when they log in or something. Doh! Another FR!

hear hear!

I have wanted this too. There were a few times I would like to have been able to "select all", but I don't have very many friends. It would be terrible to have many friends, and have all those friends also "selecting all" to end up with a glut of thousands of emails a day. Yikes!

There are people that find it necessary to forward mail all the time, I'm thinking AOL and the Urban Legend stuff. I can't make them look it up before sending, so I end up doing a "reply all" and sending back the correct information. Having the original mailer get mad at me for making them look like a fool. To which I reply, "We've been through this before, look it up yourself, or expect a reply all with the actual facts". Grrrr.

I would like a way to multi-sort friends, that could be used as "mailing categories". There are "fun" friends. There are "support forum" friends. Sometimes those categories overlap.

Tribe.net has enormous potential. I'm thinking of extended families. Cousins, aunts, uncles, grandparents, grandkids, nieces, nephews. Trying to communicate to that vast network of family (and friends) is problematic, when what you want to say is that you've just had a healthy baby girl and boy twins and you really want someone to pitch in changing diapers. LOL!

High school or college people keeping in contact after graduation, or during summer break from college. The kind of networking that can keep people in contact, and perhaps provide employment networking for those people, through their friends.

Since what can be used for good can be distorted for evil, such as spamming, it would be nice to have an "opt-out" of mass mailings from any particular person. So that "friend" who is fun on a tribe is an annoyance via mass-mail PMs, opt-out when one comes in that has NOTHING to do with anything I am interested in. Because sometimes a polite (or not so polite) "don't send me this crap" doesn't work.

It would only opt-out on multi-mailings, not on direct mail. If I get spammy direct mail, they get dumped off the friend's list.

Would any of this work? Pros, cons, comments welcome.

I'd like to throw my support behind the suggestion that sending messages to multiple recipients shoud be available. The current limitation forces me to use off-tribe e-mail addresses to send messages to selected individuals, even when in response to a Tribe-related discussion. I don't understand Edward's suggestion that I can use a "listing" for the same purpose. I haven't successfully limited the audience of a listing to a select list of friends. So, it may be possible, but not at all obvious to the casual, non-computer geek Tribe member. Every other e-mail client on the planet simply offers either a second adressee line labeled cc: or something similar, and/or the ability to enter multiple adressees separated by commas or semicolons. To me, a non programmer, it seems that this should be a relatively simple improvement, and its need is so obvious I am bewildered that it doesn't already exist. Why not a button labeled something like "add additional [addressee/recipient/etc.]" which would open a window of friends' icons??