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Peter Humphrey posted <42CB869B.4050508@××××××××××.uk>, excerpted below, |
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on Wed, 06 Jul 2005 08:22:03 +0100: |
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> Terry Ellis wrote: |
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>> Are there any? After playing around with one and ndiswrapper this |
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>> afternoon, I found the logs complaining about the windoze driver not |
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>> being 64bit. Doh! :( |
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> Please don't hijack threads. |
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Agreed, but it might help if you mentioned exactly what that means, as |
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those doing it likely don't understand the issue, or they'd /not/ be doing |
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it... |
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Thread hijacking occurs when you hit reply to an existing thread, then |
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simply change the subject, and post a question entirely different than the |
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existing thread. Because you hit reply, the post's references header will |
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still say it belongs in the old thread, and a decent client will thread it |
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as such, regardless of whether it has a different subject or not (altho |
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some clients make threading new subjects as new threads an option). |
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The better alternative is to create a NEW post (as opposed to a reply to |
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an existing post), starting a new thread, rather than hijacking an old one. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in |
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http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html |
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