On Wednesday 21 November 2012 10:39:46 François TOURDE wrote: > Le 15665ième jour après Epoch, > > Ralf Mardorf écrivait: > > On Wed, 2012-11-21 at 09:27 +0000, Lisi Reisz wrote: > >> On Wednesday 21 November 2012 09:22:57 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >> > On Wed, 2012-11-21 at 09:18 +0000, Lisi Reisz wrote: > >> > > On Wednesday 21 November 2012 08:53:38 Chris Bannister wrote: > >> > > > On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 10:43:16PM -0500, Fred White wrote: > >> > > > > Hello List, > >> > > > > >> > > > It is considered (well, actually it is) rude to hijack threads on > >> > > > mailing lists. > >> > > > >> > > According to my email client (KMail 1.9.10) he didn't. What thread > >> > > did you think that he had hijacked? > >> > > > >> > > Gmail also thinks that he started a new "conversation", but Gmail > >> > > often breaks threads. > >> > > >> > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/11/msg00909.html > >> > > >> > so Fred is the OP. > >> > >> Quite. Exactly. And Chris said that he hijacked the thread. > > > > errare humanum est > > No error in this case. He hijacked Crypticmofo's message id > 50ac43a5.3010...@gmail.com as marked on my client (Gnus), and marked on > lists.debian.org: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/11/thrd2.html#00909 > > Maybe gmail uses refs + subject to mark threads. > > The real problem hijacking threads is that fred question can be deleted > because of original thread removal. > > Lisi, consider change or upgrade your client ;)
Obviously!! This is the first time, to my knowledge, that it has let me down, but one could say once is too often. :-( I wonder which email client Ralf is using, since he too thought that Fred was the OP? I haven't looked at Gnus. Perhaps I should? Gmail doesn't even know what a thread is. It goes purely by subject. And yes, hijacking a thread can be very disadvantageous to the hijacker and very confusing for everybody else. Sorry, Chris. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201211211052.26147.lisi.re...@gmail.com