-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 André,
On 2/25/2011 10:47 AM, André Warnier wrote: > [Thread hijacking] is more annoying, because quite a few people have their > client set > to display messages "by thread" (a hierarchical display where messages > neatly appear under the ones they respond to, instead of just > chronologically). The client classifies new messages as being "part of > a thread" using information contained in other headers within the > message (kind of a "refers to" thing). These headers are automatically > added by the list server. > So when you respond to an existing message and change the subject, for > these people an unrelated message suddenly appears inside a discussion > "tree" where your new message does not belong. Worse are mail clients who think that "subject" and "thread" are interchangeable: the thread-id in the SMTP headers is ignored and instead the subject is used to thread things. That way, two things happen: 1. People who hijack threads can't tell and get all angry when we tell them they hijacked the thread 2. Legitimate thread-subject-changes (such as adding [OT] or whatever) end up showing-up in what looks like a separate thread. > Please do [chip in]. That's the point of this list. > Specially interventions like yours, which is civil, well-written and > brings valuable information and insights. Mostly everyone here will ignore most of the list-etiquette rules and remain civil if you have something worthwhile to say. Top-posting is only irritating when it looks like this: Reply: Yes, no, and maybe. There are other times this happens. 1.6. 5.something. Original: Does this happen all the time? Under what conditions? Are you able to build a patched version of Tomcat in a test environment to test a fix I have? What version of Java and Tomcat are you running? Since Chris's post had actual content and didn't really have a point-counterpoint feel to it, top-posting can be forgiven :) - -chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk1n8uwACgkQ9CaO5/Lv0PDHNQCfXscF1JWtPIXeu3DMzLgFbg/A CmYAnA/117/lOPYzoKPvU9DOX29BeEFS =Xzcc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
