William T Goodall wrote: > On 20 May 2008, at 12:16, Julia Thompson wrote: > >> >> On Mon, 19 May 2008, David Hobby wrote: >> >>> Does anyone view the latter meaning of "thread >>> hijacking" as a problem? >> Yes. >> > > I see it as worse than misquoting since I can just stop reading the > posts of someone who misquotes all the time, whereas thread hijacking > messes up the threading of all the posts.
William and everybody-- O.K., so it's bad for people who use threaded mailreaders. Sorry that I've probably done it in the past. It does not seem to be mentioned in the etiquette guide for the list: http://www.mccmedia.com/brin-l/etiquette.htm Should it be? ---David In reply to, Maru _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
