On Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:37:52 -0400 David B Teague <[email protected]> wrote:
Hello David,
> It would be better if the thread hijacking police and political
Thread hijacking doesn't help anyone, including the perpetrator. If
anyone has set their MUA to "ignore thread" for a topic that gets
hijacked, the offender has already limited the number of people reading
their post, with a potential loss of answers to any query they might
have.
I suppose it can be argued that taking over a thread like that is akin
to walking into a room where two or more people are having a
conversation and interrupting and changing the subject without even
waiting for a lull in that conversation.
Of course, there are plenty of people that are unaware that simply
hitting reply to a message and changing the subject doesn't _genuinely_
start a new thread. It just seems that way in mailers like OE. Why?
Because although OE doesn't use the references headers for threading, it
transports them correctly. Some MUAs allow the user to select "ignore
references" when replying, thus creating a new thread. Whether OE can
do this, I have no idea.
The pol. cor. police can, of course, take a long walk off a short
pier. :-)
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