Don't mean to continue the hijack, however if I might add that it
would be very helpful to just put a little note at the bottom (in
the footer of the emails that's appended by the listserver) a one
liner, like:
To start a NEW topic, use: users@tomcat.apache.org
This gives the user a one-click way to start a new message to the
right email address. I think people 'hijack' threads cuz it's easy to
just hit the reply button then to hit the new button and type out the
email address (or whatever two-step you probably have to do in order
to get a new email to the right address)
Just a suggestion, one mailing list I'm on has that and I wonder why
everyone doesn't.
-steve
On May 22, 2006, at 7:21 PM, Mark Thomas wrote:
When starting a new thread (ie sending a message to the list about a
new topic) please do not reply to an existing message and change the
subject line. To many of the list archiving services and mail clients
used by list subscribers this makes your new message appear as part
of the old thread. This makes it harder for other users to find
relevant information when searching the lists.
This is known as thread hijacking and is that is frowned
upon on this list. Frequent offenders will be removed from the list.
It should also be noted that many list subscribers automatically
ignore any messages that hijack another thread.
The correct procedure is to create a new message with a new subject.
This will start a new thread.
Mark
tomcat-user-owner
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