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

[mattias <mj mjw se>]

are not orca related to loquendo?
On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 14:15 +0200, Halim Sahin wrote:
> 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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