[rt-users] Strategy for users who like to send mail to RT and CC: lots of folks

[Fran Fabrizio]

We have a handful of users who like to send mail to our RT helpdesk and
at the same time CC: lots of other folks.  RT does a great job of adding
the CC's to the ticket - but the problem is that users typically do a
Reply All to the original email, which send another email into the
helpdesk and opens a new ticket.  Wash, rinse, repeat five times and
your ticket queue is clogged with a bunch of tickets on the same issue.

Is there a strategy that people have found works for them?  I was
thinking of just rejecting emails sent to the helpdesk that have also
CC:ed someone else, but that doesn't seem very polite now does it?  :-) 
I may be dreaming but maybe a plugin or similar for RT exists such that
it would recognize an email as being part of the same email thread for
which a ticket was already created?  Sounds too fancy but cool.  Anyway,
other than better user brainwashing to not do this, are there some
strategies I might employ to help here?

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Fran Fabrizio
Senior Systems Analyst
Department of Computer and Information Sciences
University of Alabama at Birmingham
http://www.cis.uab.edu/
205.934.0653