asterisk users - Jul 2004 - Mailing to the list

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Hi,

A friendly reminder;

Many people have email software which is thread capable. This means that email 
is sorted according to an email header, not the subject line.

When you press reply to an email it is then added to the thread of that email, 
even if you type in a new subject. Thus we end up with multiple
"threads" in
some threads. Looks very messy, and is hard to follow.

What I do is point to the To: address (@lists.digium.com) and right-click. I 
now have a menu where I can select New Message. Which will start a new thread 
without me having to type the address. (The reason most people simply select 
Reply to start a new thread.)

Thanks,
- -- 
Steve Szmidt

"They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve
neither liberty nor safety."
                                Benjamin Franklin

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On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 14:26, Steve Szmidt wrote:
> What I do is point to the To: address (@lists.digium.com) and right-click.
I
> now have a menu where I can select New Message. Which will start a new
thread
> without me having to type the address. (The reason most people simply
select
> Reply to start a new thread.)
You will find that is an email client specific option. In fact, my email
client will only prompt me to add that address to my address book.

While I don't know how widely supported this option is, it may be more
pervasive. You should be able to just click or double click on an email
address and have you mail client create a new blank message. This will
also help preserve proper threading and eliminate the whole deleting
problem.
-- 
Steven Critchfield <critch@basesys.com>