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

EliteMail VMS/EliteMail Limited Issue 3

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 console, not by telephone. However, the System Manager can reassign a group owned by the system to a new owner to allow that person to change the group by telephone.

The Group Members

Message group members are the people listed to receive a message. A message to a group is sent to all the group members. Any subscriber 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 messages is the group owner. Open

Any authorized subscriber can send messages. A subscriber does not have to be a member of an open group to send a message to that group.

The System Manager can enter Y in the Access field on the subscriber Personal Directory page to limit any subscriber from creating and sending messages to open groups. You can restrict only a subscriber from sending messages to all open groups. The Y code also restricts a subscriber from creating open groups. For details, refer to Keep Subscriber from Sending 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 the host.

Dispatch Distribution

With dispatch distribution, the first group member to listen to a group message is the only one who receives it. After a subscriber hears all of the message, the system removes the message from the other group member voice mailboxes.

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