Thread Highjacking Protocol --OT but related to this list
....Someone said earlier today, <beginning quoted text> "The original "subject" header was "MailScanner Question".... Now the thread has been jacked, archiving this is a pain and anyone searching said archive to see if someone actually answered the "MailScanner" question is only going to find that some clueless and/or manipulative individual HIGHJACKED said thread and therefore isn't getting the answer they've searched for relating to "MailScanners" - DON'T HIGHJACK THREADS - it's rude, unprofessional and seriously screws up the archive." </end of quote> Ok, a protocol point needs to be made here, I believe. There will always be new users attracted to a mail list that have *no* idea what a thread is... I was one of those once. In fact, since my mail tool (Kontact) does not thread messages by default, I hadn't ever seen what a "thread" even looked like before someone showed me how to configure the client. What's my point here? Be nice. Sometimes folks break protocol because they are honestly ignorant and don't mean any harm. They aren't trying to be rude, or mess up the archive, or anything evil like that. They just don't understand. Just a suggestion. Kind regards, M Harris <><
Seems to me you men are hijacking a thread yourself. You are very bad men. Retire your selves to a corner and sit there for an hour contemplating your sin. {^_-} Joanne, being 1) obnoxious, 2) silly, or 3) observant. ----- Original Message ----- From: "M Harris" <harrismh777@earthlink.net> ....Someone said earlier today, <beginning quoted text> "The original "subject" header was "MailScanner Question".... Now the thread has been jacked, archiving this is a pain and anyone searching said archive to see if someone actually answered the "MailScanner" question is only going to find that some clueless and/or manipulative individual HIGHJACKED said thread and therefore isn't getting the answer they've searched for relating to "MailScanners" - DON'T HIGHJACK THREADS - it's rude, unprofessional and seriously screws up the archive." </end of quote> Ok, a protocol point needs to be made here, I believe. There will always be new users attracted to a mail list that have *no* idea what a thread is... I was one of those once. In fact, since my mail tool (Kontact) does not thread messages by default, I hadn't ever seen what a "thread" even looked like before someone showed me how to configure the client. What's my point here? Be nice. Sometimes folks break protocol because they are honestly ignorant and don't mean any harm. They aren't trying to be rude, or mess up the archive, or anything evil like that. They just don't understand. Just a suggestion. Kind regards, M Harris <>< -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 20:31 -0700, jdow wrote:
Seems to me you men are hijacking a thread yourself. You are very bad men. Retire your selves to a corner and sit there for an hour contemplating your sin.
{^_-} Joanne, being 1) obnoxious, 2) silly, or 3) observant.
Seems to me that top quoting isn't good either. WTF, this list was not so unclued before. Seriously though, a few of the latest threads have been pretty lame. (unsubscribe from SLE as an example) Let's just get back to support issues / questions and get along. (putting on flame suit) ;) Dana
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed August 9 2006 21:01, Dana J. Laude wrote:
On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 20:31 -0700, jdow wrote:
Seems to me you men are hijacking a thread yourself. You are very bad men. Retire your selves to a corner and sit there for an hour contemplating your sin.
{^_-} Joanne, being 1) obnoxious, 2) silly, or 3) observant.
Seems to me that top quoting isn't good either. WTF, this list was not so unclued before. Seriously though, a few of the latest threads have been pretty lame. (unsubscribe from SLE as an example)
Let's just get back to support issues / questions and get along. (putting on flame suit) ;)
Dana
I agree totally! By the way - I'm the one that post the mail about Highjacking! I too did this long ago and got a similar reply about not highjacking threads - I got the point, stopped the practice, and gee I'm still here! I fail to see where people can't manage to tell the difference between choosing the "reply to mail-list" and "new-message"??? It isn't really that hard and shouldn't be that confusing. JMHO, Curtis. - -- Spammers Beware: Trespassers will be shot, survivors will be shot again! "The only problem with capitalism is capitalists, they're so damn greedy!" President Herbert Hoover -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFE2szk7CQBg4DqqCwRAunoAJ9u4eMrIUERg+cbPHvQuFmKS58mugCg0+aN 6mhzupSotYHq8d/GZu1Jgvw= =VBW5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Curtis Rey a écrit :
I fail to see where people can't manage to tell the difference between choosing the "reply to mail-list" and "new-message"??? It isn't really that hard and shouldn't be that confusing.
I beg they do this mostly to save some typing of the mailing list address. but for that purpose, the best way is to clic in the header on the mailing list adress and choose "new" (works AFAIK in all kind of mozilla mailer) jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://dodin.org/galerie_photo_web/expo/index.html http://lucien.dodin.net http://fr.susewiki.org/index.php?title=Gérer_ses_photos
On Thursday 10 August 2006 08:21, jdd sur free wrote:
Curtis Rey a écrit :
I fail to see where people can't manage to tell the difference between choosing the "reply to mail-list" and "new-message"??? It isn't really that hard and shouldn't be that confusing.
I beg they do this mostly to save some typing of the mailing list address.
but for that purpose, the best way is to clic in the header on the mailing list adress and choose "new" (works AFAIK in all kind of mozilla mailer)
And KMail. :) Cheers, Leen
On 09/08/06 22:01, Dana J. Laude wrote:
<snip> Let's just get back to support issues / questions and get along. (putting on flame suit) ;) Does anyone have an applause smiley? I need one here
;-)
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