On 09-Jun-03 Patrick Shanahan wrote:
And *your* question has what to do with the thread "Enabling
/home/*/public_html to be seen in my web page" which you have
responded?
In the future, please start your own thread instead of replying to a
previous post and changing the subject. There has been much discussion
of this, even in the last week and today.
I think Patrick and others are being unduly harsh with Zach Smith's
alleged "hijacking" of a thread. When I received his message it had
simply the Subect:
[SLE] Does SuSE deviate from "standards"
However, from the headers in his message I see:
In-Reply-To: <3EE3EF56.30404@okstate.edu>
References:
<20030608214341.GU5294@wahoo.no-ip.org> <3EE3DEB8.9080302@okstate.edu>
<20030608233346.GY5294@wahoo.no-ip.org> <3EE3EF56.30404@okstate.edu>
What seems to have happened here is that Zach sent a new message to the
list by "reply"ing to an existing one (perhaps to save typing/looking up
the list address), then clearing everything he could see (including the
subject) and creating a totally new message (or so it seemed) -- but not
realising that hidden below the surface there might be headers that
referenced other messages in a thread.
Hence _some_ people whose mail reader can identify the thread from these
headers (which presumes that they have already retained other messages
from the thread) will get the impression that the thread has been changed.
But in Zach's message and headers as received by me there is no mention
of "Enabling /home/*/public_html to be seen in my web page". So presumably
anyone who saw that in the "Subject:" line as received by them had it
put in there by their own system.
Right or wrong ... ?
Ted.
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