Re: Re: Please stop hijacking threads

[David Gumbrell <david.gumbrell@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm sorry if what I wrote was impolite. I was trying to explain why
preserving the integrity of the thread ID might matter to both
threading-readers and also to posters. I can't speak for Andy, but I
can understand his apparent frustration.

However, the practice Andy is posting about is not being used as "a
quick way to reply to the group" - it's being used as a quick way to
start a new discussion. It's very tempting, we've probably all done
it. I have tried to discipline myself to hit "new message" and
then
the address autofills very quickly on my mail tool.

And yes, this group is friendly and it seems that now the issue has
been pointed out and explained quite a few people are prepared to
alter their previous methods of starting new thread. For which, I for
one, am very grateful.

Cheers

David


On 10 Mar 2009, at 08:27, Ian Lowe wrote:

>
> Actually, I think that this was bang out of order.
>
> UKHA_d is described as a friendly group (and it usually is) but this
> was just over the top. it's not hijacking' a thread, it's just a
> quick way to reply to the group, and anyone who doesn't use a
> threaded email reader (and that's probably most people here)
> wouldn't see this as an issue.
>
> If it's really that big a deal for Andy and the other threaded
> client users... well you should be a darn sight more friendly in how
> you broach the subject.
>
> just my 2 cents. which at these exchange rates is probably worth
> about 0.6p by now...
>
> Ian.
>



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