* Todd Slater ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
This has been discussed here before, but I came up with a new (to me)
twist.
Hijacking a thread is when a list member wants to start a new thread,
but instead of making a new mail, s/he reads a newbie mail and hits
reply, erases the subject line and writes a new subject.
This has always annoyed me since I like my MUA to display list mail in
threads. But a real danger for folks who hijack is that their posts
might get ignored or deleted. (I always delete hijacked posts on general
principles.) Currently I use my mail's delete thread function to delete
topics that don't concern me. If a lister hijacks one of those threads,
then they are decreasing the number of eyes that might read that mail and
amount of brains that might answer a question. That's because that mail
gets counted as part of the thread, even though it's a totally different
topic.
It's called netiquette, and its all outlined in RFC1855. You can find a
copy here http://radom.org/lostfound.php?id=117
dan
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