[Asterisk-Users] List tips for new subscribers

[Eric Wieling]

David Brodbeck wrote:

>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Andrew Kohlsmith [mailto:akohlsmith-asterisk at benshaw.com]
> 
> 
>>On February 23, 2005 10:21 am, teddy at netpolice.za.org wrote:
>>
>>>Oh I'm sorry. This is the first list I've joined where this 
>>
>>is such a big
>>
>>>issue!  Forgive me for not having your superior 
>>
>>understanding of mail
>>
>>>clients, and/or list servers!
>>
>>You have a *servere* inferiority complex.
>>
>>I asked a simple question.  The only people who don't see why 
>>it's a problem 
>>use inferior mail user agents which don't support threading, 
>>or perhaps they 
>>don't realize that they can do threading.
> 
> 
> FWIW, I was unaware of this issue for a long time, too.
> 
> I did use threading in Outlook, but like many clients it "fakes" it using
> the subject headers.  It wasn't until I started using Thunderbird elsewhere
> that I understood what people were complaining about.

I think the Digium listserv should just reject HTML messages and 
messages with multiple mailing list footers.  Would cut down on a lot 
of traffic. 8-)

--Eric