[Asterisk-Users] Basic Asterisk questions - personal coments

[Miguel Cruz]

On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, Dan wrote:
>> Why is it that most users who don't understand threaded email is on
>> Windows systems.
> 
> What do you mean by that Steven?
> If the mail list application cannot handle the threads in an intelligent
> way, it is our fault??

The mailing list application has no way of knowing whether you intend to 
continue a thread but just want to change the subject line (say, if the 
topic has drifted over time) or if you want to start an entirely new 
thread.

Only the person sending a message knows that.

So it is up that that person to send the message appropriately. If that 
person wants to continue the same thread but with a new subject, hit 
'reply'. If they want to start a new thread, they should start a new 
message.

The problem with Windows clients is that while most of them will maintain 
threading headers, they lack the ability (or have it turned off by 
default) to SHOW the threads. So people don't understand that they exist.

miguel