On Wed, 2003-04-23 at 21:03, Vince Littler wrote: ---<snip lost of stuff>---
My take on 'thread hijacking' is that the technical reasons, like list managers, email clients, technical standards, etc is a secondary reason for it being a bad idea. I think it is just plain bad manners. (violating social standards) A thread is like a conversation and if you reply to a message with content that is not relevant to that message, you are chipping in. For example, say I was talking to a person(s) about email clients. One person would say: "I like to use Evolution, because it can show threaded messages" Then I reply to him: "The weather here in SA is getting colder now" Some people may say that I am rude, others may think that I am slightly crazy, because I replied with a comment that is totally irrelevant to the discussed topic. So, if we see 'hijacking' a conversation as rude and improper, then how can we justify 'hijacking' a thread? It comes down to the same thing. When you want to talk about something else, start a new conversation. Same with email. -- Andre Truter Software Engineer Registered Linux user #185282 ICQ #40935899 AIM: trusoftzaf http://www.trusoft.za.net <-------------------------------------------------> < The box said: Requires Windows 95 or better... > < So I installed Linux > <------------------------------------------------->