Drav Sloan wrote:
> cengiz yazgan wrote:
> 
>>Hi All,
> 
> 
> Hi.
> 
> Just as a point of etiquette it's not polite to 'hijack a mailing
> list threads' (reply to a message already posted to a list with a
> different question). This is because thread aware clients will show
> your mail embedded in the thread in which the message you replied
> to resides. This means you end up with a post with a different
> question (and therefore threaded answers) mixed up in a thread that
> started with a different question.
> 
> There was probably as less long winded way of saying that ;)
> 
> 

It's also unwise because readers who are not interested in the orginal thread 
will probably mark the entire thread as read, and therefore never see the 
message.


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