Oh !, I understand now ! ... I'm very sorry, I didn't know that detail. Thank you for the explanation, I'm sorry for any trouble it could produce. Best Regards, Jorge. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthew Zimmerman" <mzimmerman@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 7:53 AM Subject: Re: krb5-libs problem ? > 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/ > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
