I'm quite willing to put up with it when it's a computer-illiterate
mother
of triplets (who also has a bad habit of posting to the list we're on
when
she means to just send something to *one* person *offlist*), but
sheesh,
if you've been getting something resembling enough sleep sometime in
the
past 7 or 8 years, learn to use your e-mail *properly*, especially when
you have people actively offering to help you.
(I don't use e-mail threading even where I have it as a feature, but
Yahoo
does it by default, so if I'm reading stuff from a Yahoo group at
Yahoo,
that ends up being a problem at times. And, the list I'm on with A.
is,
in fact, a Yahoo group, so I *see* the problem a lot of the time. (The
client I'm having to use for that address forces me to top-post, which
I
don't like, so I log onto Yahoo to reply to stuff on a regular basis.))
So, yeah, I view the latter meaning of "thread hijacking" as a problem,
and there are people I'll cut some slack for on that sort of thing, but
they all have at least 2 children.
Julia
i guess i don't really comprehend the concept of e-mail threading. I
have only been trying to find a way to decipher, and edit excerpts so i
can respond in a way that is clear and concise.
i'm sure i do need to learn how to use e-mail servers properly, but i
suspect a lot of this e-mail stuff is intuitive. i really am dyslexic
when it comes to the computer interface, which is why i put so much
effort into working out a way to reply that i can cope with...
even if people are offering to help, i have learned that we speak in
different languages, and at age 62, it is difficult to become literate
in computese. it took me years to learn how to use yahoo, and i forget
most of what i have learned. i tried using my mac mail reader and
gmail but gave up.
jon
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