Keith Bates wrote:
2. Hijacking a thread happens when someone takes an existing email that
they have received and deletes the content and the subject in order to
post a completely new topic. Email programs which just sort by subject
present this as a new topic. More sophisticated email readers are not
tricked by the subject header because they use other headers to
determine what is threaded together- these programs show the new topic
interleaved with the old because they believe that the intention of the
"hijacker" was to continue the old conversation with a new subject
header.
This is not the fault of the email programs as the standards that
govern email require the more "sophisticated" approach.
I don't believe that the mailing list guidelines are meant to condone
or encourage thread hijacking.
Since many of the people posting questions to this list appear to be
quite inexperienced with all aspects of computer use, I think that we're
lucky when the subject line is changed, and in some cases lucky that
there is a subject line at all.
For those who are concerned about "hijacking", I suggest, as I have
suggested before, that they volunteer to update the guidelines.
In the meantime, I suggest that more sophisticated email readers be set
to follow threads by subject line when reading this list. If they do
not have that capability, it seems they might be different, but not
necessarily more sophisticated.
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