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From: Hal Martin <hal.martin@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] HIJACKING THREADS
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:07:58
Message-Id: 48500520.7070901@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] HIJACKING THREADS by Stroller
1 Stroller wrote:
2 > On 10 Jun 2008, at 21:55, Thomas Pedersen wrote:
3 >> Was thinking of buying the Western Digital' My Book® Home Edition™,
4 >> specially because of the eSATA connection...
5 >> I heard they have an internal USB-hub for making the capacity gauge
6 >> working.
7 >
8 I'm sorry, but I fail to see why the above example mentioned qualifies
9 as Thread Hijacking. He started a new thread to pose his question, and,
10 if anything, was only being indirect in asking it.
11 >
12 >
13 > Please don't hijack threads like this.
14 >
15 > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thread_hijacking
16 > http://groups.google.com/group/linux.gentoo.user/msg/8a540add45e7e9b8?
17 >
18 > "It is irritating for people using thread-aware e-mail clients...
19 > In case you didn't know, it happens when you use "reply" for sending
20 > a new question instead of composing a "new" message."
21 He *did* compose a new message, there is no Re: in the header and no
22 other content in the message.
23 >
24 > Stroller.--gentoo-user@l.g.o mailing list
25 -Hal
26 --
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Re: [gentoo-user] HIJACKING THREADS Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
[gentoo-user] Re: HIJACKING THREADS Michael Schmarck <michael.schmarck@×××××××××××××.de>