Re: Thread hijacking

Amedee Van Gasse (ub) wrote:
On Tue, December 15, 2009 15:46, Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote:
Thread hijacking is frowned upon, and so is publicly commenting on
thread
hijacking.

The same can be said about the following activities:


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* direct replies (not to list)


They are all violations against the letter or the spirit of the mailing
list etiquette, but the users that do those things are usually new users
that aren't even aware that there is such a thing as an etiquette.
Where, may I ask, does it say that private/direct replies are violations
of the letter or spirit of mailing list etiquette?

Unwanted direct replies when they were clearly intended to go to the list.

Tough if you are on a mailing list with a standard complying
configuration and other members do not have muas with a proper
reply-to-list mechanism.


It is a violation of mailing list etiquette to post other's
private/direct replies to you to the mailing list but private/direct
replies in themselves are rarely violations of any mailing list etiquette.

That's a totally different matter. You're talking about intentional
private replies, I'm talking about UNintentional private replies OR
private replies with the list in CC.


Unintentional private replies and private replies with the list in the
CC are too different things. The first is hardly a violation of
anything, it was a mistake. The second one however is probably the sort
of stuff before a flame war gets started.

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