I shan't post much to this thread, to try and avoid increasing to the amount of emails that we are currently getting... On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 12:26, Peter Cannon wrote: > Hi All > Just lately some of the postings on certain lists have been getting > quite strong one guy said that he saw no reason to help anyone as he had > invested a lot of time and money teaching himself and why should he make > life easy for someone else! (I'm still confused as to why he joined a > mailing list?) Yes, it is irritating, one of my possible pet peeves is the "don't hijack threads" and then no more, it's a completely pointless post, as it usually just alienates some one which is never helpful, and doesn't actually educate them either. Till I started using evolution I didn't even know threading existed for email lists, and I consider my self a reasonably capable/experiences computer user. If some one just bellowed at me to not hijack a thread, it wouldn't help too much. I know, flame away. I'm just saying that it may be some thing that just needs to be lived with for a while. > So I would like to create a new catch phrase for this type of person, > you know like, Spam, Hacker, Cracker, Newbie and so on. > > I propose "SLAMMER" the idea being that they slam the door in your face. > > If it takes off, in a couple of months time I can look back and say "I > started that". I like it, don't think i would ever use it, but I do like it. Doug
