> I just thought I'd inquire as to others' thoughts on this > netiquette topic: highjacking a thread for a totally unrelated > subject. My own tendency is not to reply to such highjacked > threads; should I/we start asking that a new thread be started > on the subject instead of giving substantive replies?
I find I'm more lenient on the Vim mailing list because I read it via email. For things like comp.lang.python and the Django Users/Developers lists, I read them via gmane and frequently kill threads that don't interest me. If somebody hijacks a thread that I've killed, I'll never see it -- their problem, not mine. On the bright side, if they reply to their message complaining that nobody is helping them, I don't see their complaints either. Now if Thunderbird's "Kill Thread" functionality worked in email too... :) (yes, if I had a simple way to share TB newsgroup "read"/"killed" settings across multiple machines, I'd read Vim via gmane too; but reading newsgroups from multiple machines is unweildy compared to just getting Vim in my shared IMAP box) -tim --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
