On Monday 09 June 2003 18.10, M. Fioretti wrote:
Of course, this is the last list message on this issue by me (until someone screws it up again :-) ).
If someone does, and you feel the irresistible urge to correct it, do it *off list*. There is absolutely no reason to waste more bandwidth by creating yet another thread on netiquette. History has proven that it doesn't do any good anyway. The only person likely to read it and be corrected by it is the person you're flaming, so you'll get the *exact* same result by correcting him off list
Actually I think the correction should be made on list. Until somebody corrected somebody else about thread-breaking, I had done it a few times myself. I was educated by reading the thread that broke out between the other guy and the irritated "broken thread" police. Posting on list can be educational about the issue. -Jim-