I do support Tim's point of view. jh > ------------ Původní zpráva ------------ > Od: Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Předmět: Re: fc12 encrypted file system > Datum: 16.5.2010 06:49:08 > ---------------------------------------- > On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 00:05 -0400, Genes MailLists wrote: > > Strictly speaking you were not ... you were making a meta comment > > about hijacking - not the topic itself. > > Strictly speaking, I was. I was replying directly to a post, about that > post. About *what* that post was. And in response to it. The message > was directly related to the one I replied to, and properly associated by > the headers. The one I drew attention to had absolutely nothing to do > with the message it replied to. *THAT* is hijacking. > > My response explained was what wrong, why it was wrong, and how to go > about getting their answer. Direct and to the point, without even > trying to be insulting (unlike jdow). Useful information to them, and > to other people who use mailing lists. > > > > It is generally considered more appropriate to reply directly to the > > poster to proffer advice .. rather than to the list on such issues. > > It is *sometimes* better to do that. Sometimes the best course of > action is to respond as I did. If nobody makes a public announcement > about not hijacking, nobody else gets to see that it's unwanted. Then, > pretty soon, just about all your *new* messages become erroneous > replies. > > If you pay attention to this list, you'll see that we occasionally make > such redirective postings to thread hijackers. We don't respond to > every one. > > > I think that was jdow's point. > > That wasn't the point they said. The point they made was to try and be > insulting, deliberately making a smartarse response just to write an > email, when there wasn't any need to make any further postings to the > thread. While passing a judgement call on myself being unaware of > something, which they have no information about whether I was aware of > it or not. There's something seriously wrong with the mental processes > of people who proceed to declare what someone else knows or doesn't > know, without any actual knowledge of that other person. > > For the record I am more than well aware of the supposed *irony* of > making the sort of response that I did. Those of us who respond to such > posts do think twice about doing so. And like I said before, sometimes > the best action is to do what I did. > > jdow was doing what jdow continually does on this list, act the jackass, > simply for the sake of it. A large proportion of their messages are > just the same. > > -- > [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r > 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 > > Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I > read messages from the public lists. > > > > -- > users mailing list > users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > > > -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
