authfriend wrote: >--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>authfriend wrote: >> >> >> >>>--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozguru@> wrote: >>> >>> ><snip> > > >>Hijacking is the term used on the Internet for that process. >>I didn't make it up and why should I make up some new term? >> >> > >I'm sure there *are* other terms. "Piggybacking" is >one, for instance. And you should find another term >*if you want to influence people instead of pissing >them off*. > >To deliberately use a term that pisses folks off, >and then mock them for being pissed off, is, well, >neither productive nor very nice. > ><snip> > > >>>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? >>> >>> >>> >>No, I just have fun ribbing people here about it. This is the only >>Yahoo Group I'm on that people do it all the time. >> >> > >And I'm not on any Yahoo Groups where people *don't* >do it all the time. Same with Google Groups. Nor >was I ever on a Usenet newsgroup (prior to the Google >interface, starting back in 1994) where people didn't >do it all the time. > >Refraining from doing it just isn't quite the standard >you seem to think it is. > > What does that > > >>say? Well to me as someone pointed out some time back it is due >>to many using the web site and not an email program. And as I >>mentioned only having a superficial idea of how to use the site's >>features. >> >> > >Yeah, both of those are wrong. Even the most >superficial idea of how to use the Web site >encompasses clicking on the button that says >"Start topic." I don't believe any of us who >use the Web site haven't used that button to >post something of interest at one time or >another. > >Plus which, those who use email programs are just >as likely not to start a new topic as those who >use the Web site. > >Nobody *cares* but you, Bhairitu. > So they are a careless bunch then? :)
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