Sub Ubi

Ralph dropped a note regarding the post Sending lots of Email:

I would just have used “mailmerge” from MS Word: drop the list of
addresses into an Excel file, write your text in Word, Select “Tools
-> Letters and Mailings -> Mailmerge” and follow the steps. No
programming required (Ok, I don’t know whether your supervisor used
Word, though.)

On a *nix box I used a little (bash) script to do the same job: this
script contains one foreach loop, picking the address from a file and
mailing the content of another file,  also rather simple.

Hm. Valid solutions, I suppose, EXCEPT THEY DON’T USE SCHEME! This makes them inferior.

In this particular case, a plain-text file was involved, so mailmerge wasn’t an option—also, I’d be afraid of some kind of HTML monstrosity being generated. A bash script, however, could have been done, although I must admit I’m more confident in my memory of Scheme syntax than my memory of bash syntax. Point made, though.