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Avaya Modular Messaging Concepts and Planning Guide
5-34 November 2004
Avaya Modular Messaging Concepts and
Planning Guide
Personal Distribution Lists
A personal distribution list (PDL) is a labelled collection of addresses that
subscribers create and save for use later. Messages that are addressed to
the list are sent to all the multiple addresses (list members) within the list.
Subscribers that frequently send messages to the same group of people,
can create a PDL for the group. For example, if a subscriber frequently
sends messages to ten members of the Sales team, the subscriber can
create a PDL labelled ‘Sales’ that has the addresses of the ten members of
the Sales team. When the subscriber sends a message to the Sales PDL,
the message is sent to all ten members of the Sales team.
Unlike system lists, such as an Enhanced-List Application (ELA), a PDL
is created and managed by a subscriber rather than a system administrator.
Unlike an ELA, a PDL is personal, meaning that only the owner of the list
can view and use the list. A PDL is not available for other subscribers to
use.
For more information on system lists and ELA, see System lists
on page
5-31.
Modular Messaging supports up to 500 PDLs per subscriber, subject to
system capacity, though no hard limit has been established in the product.
Note: Lists are not subscribers and do not count towards any
purchasable limits.
PDL members
The entries that a PDL contains are known as PDL members. A PDL can
contain one or more of the following as list members:
! Addresses of local or remote subscribers. Subscribers can also
create a PDL with no addresses and add addresses later. The
format for adding addresses to a PDL depends on the client or
interface subscribers use. For more information, see Creating
PDLs from the TUIs on page 5-36 and Creating PDLs from
Subscriber Options on page 5-37.
! Fax machine telephone number
! ELA lists on local or remote systems
! Enterprise Lists on a Message Networking server
! Other PDLs owned by the same subscriber
! Any arbitrary e-mail address