--- Max Battcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> David Hobby wrote:
> > The other is "sending a new message by replying
> > to an old one and changing the subject line". The
> > complaint there is that most email readers will show
> > the new message as being in the same thread as the
> > old message on a different subject that was replied
> > to. I'm probably guilty of this myself, since I
> > seldom use threading when reading email discussions.
> > (I tend to just go by the subject lines.)
>
> This is indeed what happened with this thread... Jon hit reply to an
>
> entirely separate thread and now there's this big monster thread.
> Changing the subject line is good and all, but Jon's email client is
> attempting to be smarter than he is and telling my client which mail
> he
> replied to, which unfortunately isn't involved in any of his quoting
> and
> happens to be an innocent bystander.
>
> > Does anyone view the latter meaning of "thread
> > hijacking" as a problem?
>
> It's certainly an annoyance and I've known people that have had that
> as
> a major pet peeve. I've also seen it done spitefully as a way to
> derail
> threads that they disagreed with, although that sort of griefing is
> easier on a forum rather than by email were not everyone reads the
> list
> as a threaded conversation.
>
> But at the very least it can look rude and/or lazy. You hit reply on
>
> emails that you are in fact directly replying to. If you are
> starting a
> new thread of discussion you should grab the mailing list address
> from
> your email client rather than replying to something that you are not
> in
> fact addressing. There are easy ways to deal with that... Get a
> smarter client that makes it easy to start a new message to your
> mailing
> lists or get a dumber client that doesn't bother to send out "in
> reply
> to" information...
>
> --
> --Max Battcher--
> http://www.worldmaker.net/
>
> Where is the Miss Manners for Netiquette? Maru
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what "client" would you suggest for an illiterate?~) i have no idea
what e-mail client i am using?
i apologize for opening up a can of worms, i had no idea what i was
doing was so rude. i certainly did not intent to cause so much
trouble.
jon
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