Wilton Helm schrieb: > This is an opportunity for me to ask a question regarding this mailing list. > I've worked with several other groups using a variety of communications > techniques from Web based to news reader based, but never anything like this. > > Due to my lack of experience (and/or wrong tools) this looks totally like > chaos. Asterisk messages come in with no apparent thread ordering other than > noticing the subject line. They are all mixed up with my general E-Main (and > spam, which they exceed in volume). I can't reply to them, as the To line > generated isn't viable. > > Is there some organizational structure I am missing here? I am using XP and > OE 6 for E-Mail, which may not be that friendly towards this type of > situation. It does have a very good newsgroup reader that I regularly use > for another group I am part of, and I would be much better served by that > than by having it all land in my general in-box at the rate of 100 a day, all > mixed up with my personal and business correspondence.
Most mail readers I know support a threaded view (they read the References header). And in most MUAs or servers you can define a filter / processing rule so you can store mails matching a certain rule ( List-Id header contains "asterisk-users.lists.digium.com" or To contains "[email protected]" or Sender contains "[EMAIL PROTECTED]") in a separate (IMAP or local) folder. Outlook is one of the worst mail clients because it gets every- thing wrong every time. :-) In fact the difference between a newsgroup and an email list is basically non-existent. Newsgroups scale much better but that's it. Hijacking treads instead of starting a new one for a new topic is bad because for people who use a threaded view the messages show up in the wrong thread. And it's bad for the archives as well. Philipp Kempgen -- http://www.das-asterisk-buch.de - http://www.the-asterisk-book.com Amooma GmbH - Bachstr. 126 - 56566 Neuwied -> http://www.amooma.de Geschäftsführer: Stefan Wintermeyer, Handelsregister: Neuwied B14998 -- _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
