Fix blind list alias expansion

[mmh] / man / mh-alias.man5

diff --git a/man/mh-alias.man5 b/man/mh-alias.man5
index 1d0508f..3769141 100644 (file)
--- a/man/mh-alias.man5
+++ b/man/mh-alias.man5
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ Example Alias File:
 .nf
 <%etcdir%/MoreAliases
 sgroup: fred, fear, freida
-b-people: Blind List: bill, betty;
+b-people: Blind List: bill, betty
 fred: frated@UCI
 UNIX\-committee: <unix.aliases
 staff: =staff
@@ -218,6 +218,13 @@ Start adding aliases to your
 .RI ` aliases '
 file as appropriate.
 .RE
+.PP
+Earlier versions of this man page showed a semicolon at the end of the
+blind list example.  That caused the preceeding alias to not be
+expanded.  There must not be a semicolon at the end of, or within, the
+address group of a blind list.
+.B post
+will append the semicolon to the blind list name.
 
 .SH FILES
 None
@@ -249,5 +256,3 @@ command may defeat this.
 Since the number of file descriptors is finite (and very limited), such
 infinite recursion will terminate with a meaningless diagnostic when
 all the fds are used up.
-.PP
-Forward references do not work correctly inside blind lists.