On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 06:55:41AM -0300, Kevork wrote:
> > First: DO NOT hijack foreign threads!
> Sorry, what did U do wrong ? ... Don't understand you.
He means don't do a `Reply' to an existing message and change
the subject to start a discussion on a new topic. You should
send a `New' message to fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx instead.
A lot of mailreaders have a feature that group messages that
are replies to one another into a tree structure called
a thread. If you assume that all the messages in a thread
are on the same subject, you can eliminate a whole set of
messages you may not be interested in by deleting the whole
thread at once, thus saving time.
However, by replying to an unrelated message, you start a new
discussion on a new topic that *should* be in a new thread but
gets mixed into an existing thread, or `foreign', thread. Thus
if you delete the original thread, you may be throwing away
messages you are interested in, i.e., on the new topic, without
knowing about it. This process is widely known as `hijacking'.
--
Matt
Matthew Zimmerman
Interdisciplinary Biophysics, University of Virginia
http://www.people.virginia.edu/~mdz4c/
