[asterisk-users] Need some help with a very simple Queestion..

[Stephen Bosch]

Gavin Spurgeon wrote:
> 
>> Ps. Please start new messages from scratch rather then reply to
>> existing ones... (a mistake I've made in the past )-:
> 
> Woops..
> I was ment to remove all that before I posted...

Actually, what he's referring to is that posters should start a NEW
thread for a new subject.

To send a message to the list, click "Compose" or "New" or whatever the
button is on your particular client (apologies to those using console
clients like Mutt) for new messages and enter the list address in the
To: field.

This means *not* clicking 'reply' to an existing message on the list and
then rewriting the subject line (seems like a lot of extra work anyway,
doesn't it?) People do this because they can't be bothered to type the
list address. That's not hard to solve -- add the address to your
address book and create a nickname for it.

The reason is that it screws up the message threading. If you are using
a threaded reader, or if you are in the archives, you'll have a tree of
messages with the original subject line (say, "My Asterisk server blew
up!") and in the middle of it there'll be something totally unrelated
(say, "Marmite is good on scones.")

Very frustrating if you're trying to read through a thread in the hopes
of solving your problem.

It's most important for the archives, as these are saved for future
reference and are insanely confusing when somebody has piped in to an
existing thread.

-Stephen-