--- David Hobby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> jon louis mann wrote:
> > // Thread hijacking is also considered bad form.
> > Comedy of errors Maru
> > Jon--
> > // Hi. I like the '>' characters. All you have to do
> > is count them to see who wrote what. Maybe it's a
> ...
> > ---David
> >
> > okay if i dbl // so i don't have to use the shift key, and cut and
> past
> > the post with your name at the end, or is that what william means
> by
> > thread hijacking? i tried to download thunderbird once. i'm not
> that
> > computer literate.
> > jon
>
> Jon--
>
> So you're going to start your own convention, that
> everything after a '//' is a quote, until you get
> to the name at the end? Why? I mean, there's a
> perfectly good method which almost everybody else
> uses.
>
> My problem with your method is that my email reader
> is not familiar with your convention, so stuff you're
> trying to quote doesn't display indented and in a
> different color. Which is what quotes done with
> '>' do. (For me. Apparently not for you.)
>
> No, I'm not quite sure what William means by thread
> hijacking. The best I found on that is Wikipedia:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thread_hijacking
>
> It means one of two things. One is "talking about
> something else without changing the subject line".
> That seems to be pretty common here. : )
>
> The other is "sending a new message by replying
> to an old one and changing the subject line". The
> complaint there is that most email readers will show
> the new message as being in the same thread as the
> old message on a different subject that was replied
> to. I'm probably guilty of this myself, since I
> seldom use threading when reading email discussions.
> (I tend to just go by the subject lines.)
>
> Does anyone view the latter meaning of "thread
> hijacking" as a problem?
>
> ---David
>
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wow, i just realized that everyone who participates in this process is
seeing it in different format, some with colors and other ways of
distinguishing who is saying what. i must have a really messed up
e-mail reader/program/client (sorry i'm not sure which is the right
jargon) because i get a bunch of >>>s and lousy word wrap. i didn't
realize i was messing up every one's messages by trying to make it so i
could tell who was saying what... i am beginning to understand what
hijacking a thread means.
jon
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