NEC 750370 The Group Members, Differences between Private and Open Groups, Private Groups and Guests, Dispatch Distribution

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Reference 9 - 19
Some groups may be owned by the system instead of by an individual
subscriber or System Manager. Groups owned by the system can be
changed only at the consol e, not by telephone. Howe ver, the System
Manager can reassign a group owned by th e system to a new owner to
allow that person to change the group by te lep hone.
The Group Members
Message group members are the people listed to receive a messag e. A
message to a group is sent to all the g ro up m emb ers. A ny s ubs cribe r can
be a member of any message group. Guests can be members of certain
groups owned by the guest host.
Differences between Private and Open Groups
You can create private or open message groups.
Private
The only person who can send mess ag es is the group owner.
Open
Any authorized subscriber can send m essages. A subscribe r does
not have to be a member of an open group to send a message to
that group.
The System Manager can en ter Y in the Access field on the subscribe r
Personal Directory page to limit any sub scribe r fro m cr eatin g and send ing
messages to open groups. You can restrict only a subscribe r from sending
messages to all open groups. The Y code also restricts a subscriber from
creating open groups. For detai ls, refer to Kee p Sub scriber f rom Se nding
to Open Groups on page 9-27.
Private Groups and Guests
Guests cannot be members of open groups. Because a guest is created to
trade messages only with the host subscriber, a guest can only be a
member of the private groups owned by t he host.
Dispatch Distribution
With dispatch distribution, the first group member to listen to a group
message is the only one who re ceives it. After a subscriber he ars all of the
message, the system removes the message from the other group member
voice mailboxes.