TRANSFER Administration Guide Volume 1 Reference Manual

7 Managing Distribution Lists
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Overview This section describes how to define and manage distribution lists. A distribution list
contains the names of one or more TRANSFER correspondents and X400 foreign
correspondents. By using a distribution list, a correspondent can send a package to
multiple recipients without having to enter all the recipients' names. The
correspondent can simply address the package to the distribution list name.
A distribution list can contain other distribution lists as well as individual
correspondents as members. A list can also include names at other nodes in the
network. Any number of distribution lists can be defined for a correspondent or
interest group.
TRANSFER supports several user classes and access levels for managing distribution
lists:
A correspondent can create distribution lists associated with his or her own depot.
The correspondent can add, delete, and change the list access privileges of
members of these private distribution lists.
Group creators and group administrators can create distribution lists for groups
they administer. They can add, delete, and change the attributes of members of
these shared distribution lists. See Section 5, “Listing, Adding, and Deleting
Groups,” for a discussion of interest groups and their creators and administrators.
Group members can create distribution lists for groups whose profiles are non-
restrictive, that is, configured to allow any member to create distribution lists.
Members can add, delete, and change the list access privileges of members of these
shared distribution lists.
For group distribution lists defined with a voluntary sign-up option, any group
member can add or delete his or her own correspondent name.
System administrators can create distribution lists for any correspondent or group
depot; and they can add, delete, and change the attributes of members of
distribution lists belonging to any correspondent or group.
Any correspondent at any node can look up the name of a list and use it by specifying
it as a recipient; however, only the correspondents registered at the node where the list
is defined can see the names in the list.
Note The distribution list function provides the only context for storing X400 foreign correspondent names in
TRANSFER. (An X400 foreign correspondent is an X400 correspondent on a system that does not
support TRANSFER.) Because the X400 name format requires several data elements to establish
uniqueness in a national or international network, an X400 correspondent name cannot be conveniently
entered as a recipient name on a TRANSFER package. X400 correspondents are, therefore, maintained
in TRANSFER only as members of distribution lists, even when that means creating a list with only one
X400 name. This approach provides a correspondent the convenience of entering just a short distribution
list name to send a package to one or more X400 correspondents.