--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It morphed into a thread about FISA having nothing to do with the > Jonbenet case. Why? Because some people start a new topic by > replying to an old one and changing the subject.
Actually, the original JonBenet subject line is still going strong, but it hasn't been about JonBenet for many days. Nobody "started" the new topic (FISA). It morphed over the course of several posts. Somebody commented on how the media were spending much more time on the JonBenet case than the wiretapping case, then somebody said something just about the wiretapping case, and it went on from there, leaving the JonBenet topic in the dust. At least on this forum we have the good sense to find the wiretapping case more important and interesting than the JonBenet case! That does not actually start a > new topic in the YahooGroup database. So if you are reading by > date then you will see all these subject lines that are about > Jonbenet that aren't. :) But people get pretty uptight around > here when I bring "thread hijacking" up which is interesting of > itself. I think the reason people get annoyed is the term you use, "hijacking," which implies somebody was trying to steal something from somebody else. If you don't want to get folks' backs up, find a more neutral term. Threads morph naturally, the way ordinary conversation does, not because somebody had evil intent. We don't stop to announce that we're starting a new topic when we're having a live conversation, and it feels artificial to do the equivalent here. Plus which, I couldn't have traced the thread back to find out exactly where it started to morph if a new topic had been started; the connection to the old thread would have been lost completely. Sometimes it's important to preserve it. You seem to be the only one who finds it inconvenient, Bhairitu. Why shouldn't you be the one to adapt rather than everybody else? (Hamilton got it wrong only because he didn't actually bother to read any of the thread, he just picked the subject heading because he thought it would enhance his point. Since the JonBenet case is such a relatively trivial issue, it was easier for him to make it sound stupid and dump on the people who were participating.) To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
