Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: David W Noon <dwnoon@××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Don't start a new thread by changing the subject
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 12:26:58
Message-Id: 20110625132521.5c1e5993@karnak.local
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Don't start a new thread by changing the subject by kashani
1 On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 17:43:31 -0700, kashani wrote about Re:
2 [gentoo-user] Don't start a new thread by changing the subject:
3
4 [snip]
5 > My understanding is that the NNTP server was munging headers
6 > thereby creating new threads where it should have been a single
7 > thread.
8
9 Your subject line reads as though that is what you are asking, as some
10 MUAs preserve threading until the Subject: header changes -- even when
11 the Message-ID: line has been mangled.
12
13 > This is users responding to an existing email, removing all
14 > content, changing the subject, and then sending the mail which keeps
15 > the thread headers and make it appear to be part of the current
16 > thread.
17
18 That is called "thread hijacking" and has been considered a breach of
19 netiquette for at least 25 years. However, the influx of computer
20 illiterates to the Internet in the last 15 or so years has caused
21 netiquette to be "more honoured in the breach than the observance."
22
23 Likewise for HTML messages, top posting, lack of snipping, etc.
24
25 Unfortunately, I see all of these misdemeanours on software development
26 mailing lists, particularly those related to the Free Pascal Compiler,
27 and software developers *should* know better. Worse still, the people
28 who make these gaffes don't see anything wrong and refuse to accept that
29 traditional netiquette should apply to them.
30 --
31 Regards,
32
33 Dave [RLU #314465]
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35 dwnoon@××××××××.com (David W Noon)
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