Rikard Bosnjakovic wrote: > On 5/9/07, Alan Gauld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Please don;t hijack a thread to ask something unrelkated. >> Start a new threead it helps keep things clear and makkes >> it easier to find responses later. > > What do you mean by hijack a thread? > > Her subject "Type conversion" is the only occurence in this list, > hence it's an original post.
When you start a new thread by posting a message with an unrelated topic as a reply to a message on an existing thread, that is called hijacking the thread. The Type Conversion message was posted in this way as you can see if you look at the message headers; it is a reply to one of Teresa Stanton's messages. When you hijack a thread, threaded newsreaders will show the new message and its replies in the original thread. This is disruptive to the flow of the original thread. Also anyone who has stopped reading the original thread will miss the new one. The correct way to start a new thread is with a new email that is not a reply to another. Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
