Distrib list w/i Distrib list?

[Melissa]

I need to have 2 distribution lists for committee
representatives where one is a sub-set of the other. I
already had "Committee A" set up with 20 members and it
worked fine when sending e-mail just to them.
I then created a new list for "Committee B" and when
choosing the members I selected the "Committee A"
distribution list plus 8 other names. Outlook 2000
allowed me to do this and I assumed a message would go to
all 28 people when I selected "Committee B" in the "To"
line of a new message. Instead my message only went to 8
people and I got a bounce-back saying that "Committee A" e-
mail address was not valid.
Does anyone know if a distribution list within a
distribution list can work? (Yes, I can manually add the
20 names from the first list to the 2nd, but I'd like to
only make changes in one place if possible.)
Thanks in advance.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP]]

This should work if you created actual distribution lists in your Outlook Contacts folder. I suspect it might not work if you created "groups" in the address book in Internet Mail ONly mode.
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