On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 01:09:54PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > The main problem still is, that humans on this list count to much on all > kinds of automatic selection. An id shouldn't be that important as a > subject is. We had thousands of years of natural evolution and now we > try to be better than nature and to select by smart inventions, e.g. by > an id. Living beings should be able to select their self, instead of > using machines that does sort by e.g. an id. On this list there never is > a month without issues to "broken threads". Use a MUA and e.g. sort by > the subject, or anything else that's "human readable".
The point is that by "hijacking" a thread (either innocently or whatever) it detracts attention (takes all the limelight) from the actual legitimate OP. Good software picks this up. :) Unfortunately, my post, has detracted attention from the OP, although I prefer to look on it as a sub thread. :) Just as an aside, I googled "hijack thread" (just so I could point the hijacker to some relevant documentation) and the responses seem to confuse "starting a sub thread" with "hijacking a thread" whereas my understanding of "hijacking a thread" is where the poster replies to a post and changes the subject to what he/she pleases with the understanding it is a completely new topic. "starting a sub thread" is a deliberate action of starting a sub topic (an aside if you like, like those shaded info¹ boxes in those for dummies books) and entails altering the subject accordingly, normally along the lines of "sub topic subject (was ... previous subject). ¹ Might be tech or extra. -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X -- 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/20121121140429.GA32325@tal