On 2009-06-10 09:51 (-0400), Charles Campbell wrote: > 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? As a recent example of this, consider Carsten > Agger's "Hide cursor" which hijacked the "is the [Esc] key not very > unreachable?" thread.
Perhaps you could start by elaborating the semantics of hijacking in this mailing list's context. What makes a change in the subject of discussion (and Subject header) hijacking? I think it's perfectly normal that during a discussion the subject wanders from one to another. New interesting points are raised by the participants. It's not necessarily because of a rude person wanting more attention. Everyone is still free to continue with the original subjects. Separate subjects are still technically separate subthreads. But if vim-use list is seen only or mostly as a question-answer mailing list, rather than a discussion list, then perhaps I can understand that changing the subject of a question-answer thread may feel like an unhelpful practice. Haven't seen such "changing the subject means hijacking and is rude" view anywhere else, though. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
