I admit I have been guilty of this. It started when I recently began getting
failure messages stating that the list did not exist or that I had spaces in
the address. When I check the address there were no spaces. For example, I
have asked twice about the problem I am having with find my friend and have
yet to see a response.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Raul A. Gallegos" <[email protected]>
To: "ViPhone List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 7:56 PM
Subject: Moderator - A note about hijacking threads
Hello all. This is just to remind people that it's not appropriate to
hijack a thread. You can read about what hijacking threads is from the
links at the end of my message. Basically if you hijack a thread, it means
that you open a message which is talking about an iPhone GPS app, then you
reply to the message, erase all the contents, leaving a blank message, and
write to ask about a suggested cooking app. You change the subject to
reflect that it's about cooking and you send it.
For those of us who use an email client which properly handles threads,
such as the iPhone mail program, Thunderbird mail, and many others, what
happens is the following.
You see a message thread with 15 messages. You are happily reading about
GPS, and tapping next over and over, then suddenly while in the same
thread, the discussion is about Cooking apps. We are not talking about
morphed subjects where one subject slowly changes to another one and
people change it to update the morphed thread, we are talking about a cold
turkey change. Then someone else replies about 5 messages later and it's
not about cooking apps, it's about gps apps, basically the original
thread. So, in reality, the 15 messages which you thought was a lively
discussion about gps apps, was maybe only 5 or 6 because of the hijacker
who decided to do this, rather than simply starting a new message, giving
it an appropriate subject, and sending it along.
Sorry if this sounds harsh, but hijacking a thread is lazy. Please don't
take this message as a sign that messages shouldn't be posted to the list.
By all means, post away messages and discussions about iOS products, but
please don't hijack one thread to put your own completely thread in the
middle. The links below explain this further.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=thread%20hijacking
http://wiki.openstack.org/MailingListEtiquette
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Raul A. Gallegos - VIPhone Moderator
A friend is someone who will bail you out of jail. A best friend is the
one sitting next to you saying "boy was that fun. ~ The Maugles
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