[orca-list] howto write mails to this list?



Hello,
A common anoying problem of this mailinglist is thread hijacking.

from Wikipedia
   Thread hijacking (or "threadjacking") in online communication is the
   act of composing a new mail to a email mailing list, internet forum
or
   newsgroup by replying to an existing message with un- or
barely-related
   content, rather than composing a new message from scratch. In the
worst
   case, the threadjacker fails to even change the Subject: line.

   Harms from threadjacking result from
     * disruption to email clients that display discussions in a
       hierarchical, or threaded, fashion. An email client usually
cannot
       do content analysis of messages to make this determination;
rather,
       it relies upon an In-Reply-To: header field that records the
       Message-ID of the respondee. Thus a threadjacked message is mixed
       into the tree of an unrelated thread, rather than in a new one.
     * degradation to search. Email clients often default to searching
     * the
       Subject: line, rather than the more voluminous bodies of
messages.
       An attempt to search for a message with contents very different

       from its Subject: will then be thwarted.

   Threadjacking is generally considered a breach of netiquette and can
   cause ill feelings among other participants in the discussion.
End Wikipedia

Please don't use an existing mail and change its subject to start a new
thread.
Please don't ask not thread related questions in an existing thread.
See previous loquendo related diskusion!!!

Regards




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