Hi :) Hijacking threads is annoying. Mostly because when you try to find the subject of the 2nd thread in a few weeks time it is almost impossible and any good stuff is lost.
When you notice a thread has been hijacked the best thing to do is to FORWARDS the new thread back to the list and politely point out the reason. Mailing lists are a very sub-optimal way of providing user-support and expecting the entire world to intuitively understand the weirdnesses and complexities is (imo) insane. Are we here to help people or to criticise the slightest slip? Regards from Tom :) --- On Wed, 8/2/12, Dan Lewis <elderdanle...@gmail.com> wrote: From: Dan Lewis <elderdanle...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] [hijacked thread] Re: Installing MySQL Connect - should be "Writer - Dotted grid background" To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Wednesday, 8 February, 2012, 3:13 On Tue, 2012-02-07 at 18:53 -0800, NoOp wrote: > On 02/06/2012 12:09 PM, Tony Sumner wrote: > > I hope MySQL isn't OT. > ... > > Actually it is for the thread that you hijacked: "Writer - Dotted grid > background". In the future please start a new email & subject rather > than tagging on to another thread and simply changing the subject. You > probably wouldn't appreciate it if you started a new, clean thread > titled 'MySQL Connect' and someone came along and started a new subject > within that thread. I also don't think that those that responded: > > - Dan Lewis > - Tom Davies > - Jay Lozier > - Fernand Vanrie > - Heirich Stollinger > > et al would appreciate the same if someone did this to their thread. > > To see how the thread changed, see: > <http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.libreoffice.user/16492> > > For further information please see: > <http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette> > and I tend to like: > <http://wiki.meego.com/Mailing_list_guidelines#Do_Not_Hijack_Threads> > > Thanks. > Sorry. I really did not pay that close attention to the thread. I do believe that the question was answered though. If not, please say so. --Dan -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
