The phrase "a distribution list" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a list of recipients for emails or messages, typically in a business or organizational context.
Example: "Please add my email to the distribution list so I can receive all updates."
Alternatives: "mailing list" or "recipient list".
Every morning, she sends out a text message to a distribution list of friends and sports-world dignitaries, from the Yankees manager, Joe Girardi, to the Mavericks coach, Rick Carlisle.
"I have a business acquaintance who relies heavily on voice recognition and e-mail to do his job," writes Jay Vivian of Stamford, Conn. "A year or two ago, I received a broadcast e-mail from him addressed to about seven of us, obviously a distribution list of people who shared an interest in investment risk management.
Another amendment calls on Swiss companies who used forced labourers to come forward and hand over documents to special master Judah Gribetz, who will set up a distribution list for the settlement money to help find the people or their heirs.
A controlled document requires a unique document number, issued by the document controller, together with a revision number to distinguish it from later revisions, a sign-off section to identify the personnel responsible for review and approval, and a distribution list of personnel and organizations to receive a copy.
In 1995, he started Craigslist as a distribution list to friends to share information about social events.
Responders who want to copy all can do so by selecting the names or using a distribution list.
The latest in a series of Mail on Sunday revelations concerns an unnamed Blair henchman's instruction to those on a select distribution list to burn a memo.
This email should have been sent to a very small number of subscribers, but instead was sent to a vast distribution list made up of people who had previously provided their email address to The New York Times.
Specifically, it alleges Apple included an Intel engineer on an email distribution list when requesting proprietary information and that an Intel engineer asked an Apple engineer to request similar information from Qualcomm.
That may include chain letters, jokes, CCs and messages from colleagues who send departmental communications to a long distribution list, he said.
Or she could send a copy of a magazine article by fax, store an image of the article in the computer, and then have it fax copies to the people on a predetermined distribution list.
