--- In [email protected], Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > authfriend wrote: > > >--- In [email protected], Bhairitu <noozguru@> wrote: <snip> > Hijacking is the term used on the Internet for that process. > I didn't make it up and why should I make up some new term?
I'm sure there *are* other terms. "Piggybacking" is one, for instance. And you should find another term *if you want to influence people instead of pissing them off*. To deliberately use a term that pisses folks off, and then mock them for being pissed off, is, well, neither productive nor very nice. <snip> > >If you don't want to get folks' backs up, find a more > >neutral term. Threads morph naturally, the way > >ordinary conversation does, not because somebody had > >evil intent. We don't stop to announce that we're > >starting a new topic when we're having a live > >conversation, and it feels artificial to do the > >equivalent here. > > > >Plus which, I couldn't have traced the thread back > >to find out exactly where it started to morph if a > >new topic had been started; the connection to the old > >thread would have been lost completely. Sometimes > >it's important to preserve it. > > > >You seem to be the only one who finds it inconvenient, > >Bhairitu. Why shouldn't you be the one to adapt > >rather than everybody else? > > > No, I just have fun ribbing people here about it. This is the only > Yahoo Group I'm on that people do it all the time. And I'm not on any Yahoo Groups where people *don't* do it all the time. Same with Google Groups. Nor was I ever on a Usenet newsgroup (prior to the Google interface, starting back in 1994) where people didn't do it all the time. Refraining from doing it just isn't quite the standard you seem to think it is. What does that > say? Well to me as someone pointed out some time back it is due > to many using the web site and not an email program. And as I > mentioned only having a superficial idea of how to use the site's > features. Yeah, both of those are wrong. Even the most superficial idea of how to use the Web site encompasses clicking on the button that says "Start topic." I don't believe any of us who use the Web site haven't used that button to post something of interest at one time or another. Plus which, those who use email programs are just as likely not to start a new topic as those who use the Web site. Nobody *cares* but you, Bhairitu. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
