I'd call it a personal distribution list perhaps, as personal address list might be confused with a literal list of personal addresses.
I assume a DL to be a directory based one unless an appropriate modifier is applied or it is contextually implied to be of another variety. YMMV Chris -- Chris Scharff Senior Sales Engineer MessageOne If you can't measure, you can't manage! > -----Original Message----- > From: John Matteson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 10:56 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: How to create a distributionlist with external members ? > > > Then in effect, this is a personal address list, not a > distribution list. > > DL's (in my mind anyway) can be used by anyone, inside or > outside the company (yes, yes, yes, as long as they have > permission to), and when the recipient gets the message that > person sees the DL as the TO or CC address, not a bunch of > individual addresses (like you would with an expanded > personal distribution list). > > And NO I'm not getting into a tinkling contest with anyone, > I'm trying to wrap my head around this so I can understand it > better. What I call a "distribution list" may not be what > someone else calls a distribution list, and vice versa. > > If anyone doesn't believe that you can't "loose something in > translation" when everyone is speaking English, has never > seen the interpretation of "SECURE THE BUILDING" when > addressing the military services of the US. > > John Matteson; Exchange Manager > Geac Corporate Infrastructure Systems and Standards > (404) 239 - 2981 > > With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. - RFC 1925 > > -----Original Message----- > From: Chris Scharff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 11:16 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: How to create a distributionlist with external members ? > > Trick question? <g> > > The message would be delivered to the individual recipients, > because you can't send mail to a PF DL. The PF DL is expanded > before the message is sent, so the external sender would have > a list of all the recipients of the message (if it wasn't > sent to the DL on the bcc line), and to "send to the DL" > they'd do a reply to all or compile the list of intended > recipients manually. > > Chris > -- > Chris Scharff > Senior Sales Engineer > MessageOne > If you can't measure, you can't manage! > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: John Matteson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 9:50 AM > > To: Exchange Discussions > > Subject: RE: How to create a distributionlist with external > members ? > > > > > > What are the effects of this DL in the public folder? > > > > If someone outside the company were to send a message to that > > DL, would it process automatically, without a client touching > > the PF, or would it have to wait until the creator or another > > authorized user logged in to that PF for the waiting message > > to be processed and distributed to the list members? > > > > John Matteson; Exchange Manager > > Geac Corporate Infrastructure Systems and Standards > > (404) 239 - 2981 > > > > With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. - RFC 1925 > ( The remainder of the message has been clipped, chipped and recycled) > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
