Use ";" as email delimiter when sending to multiple recipients

Hello out there. We currently have a Banner system in place that allows faculty to do a mass email to their classes. The only catch is that they use a semicolon as the delimiter between email addresses and Apple Mail doesn't seem to recognize this.
Can anyone help me find a way to enable the use of the semi-colon as a delimiter?
Thanks.

Perhaps I could be barking up the wrong tree here,
but I'm pretty sure that separating email addresses
with a ";" has been a long supported feature in a lot
of different Mail clients over the years. If
anything, I've had nothing but trouble with using ","
as a delimiter.
Well, Mail won't do it obviously, and I tested a couple different web mail clients that also won't recognize a ';'. I also looked at the RFC that defines the format for e-mail, and although I'm not particularly good at reading those documents, it does seem to say that the ',' is the appropriate delimiter between recipients.
However, they use a ";" delimiter
as Outlook and Entourage do not respect "," correctly
without tweaking.
I find that surprising, as I've used all manner of methods for accessing e-mail over the years -- everything from extremely simple Unix mail readers to clients like PowerMail, MailSmith, Eudora and Mail to web mail interfaces -- and in all the interfaces that I have used, the comma is the appropriate delimiter. If Outlook and Entourage truly don't do the comma without extra work, I have only one explanation: Microsoft.
So - is there some way to add another delimiter that
Mail will recognize in email lists (in the To: Cc: or
Bcc: box)?
I assume this is something you want automated, and I also am assuming that Banner is producing the lists of addresses. How do they get from Banner to Mail? If you could insert an AppleScript in that process somehow for your Mac users, you could automatically replace all ';' characters with ','.

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