From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K6gRK-0001G7-CH for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 06:37:42 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 054CEE045E; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 06:37:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2418E045E for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 06:37:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C1F2671F7 for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 06:37:39 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.165 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.165 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.434, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id OM-XpyCL5DKm for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 06:37:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2FFC64AFB for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 06:37:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1K6gR3-0003FP-5O for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 06:37:25 +0000 Received: from zy-rieter.cyberlink.ch ([212.55.215.153]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 06:37:25 +0000 Received: from michael.schmarck by zy-rieter.cyberlink.ch with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 06:37:25 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Michael Schmarck Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: HIJACKING THREADS Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 08:37:17 +0200 Organization: =?UTF-8?B?xYI=?= Message-ID: References: <48500520.7070901@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: zy-rieter.cyberlink.ch User-Agent: KNode/0.10.9 Sender: news Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 8d73010e-fd42-4810-bb09-2f6a9cd2afbc X-Archives-Hash: 5c89062ff7b897e5c6959a6624e2cb5b Hal Martin wrote: > Stroller wrote: >> On 10 Jun 2008, at 21:55, Thomas Pedersen wrote: >>> Was thinking of buying the Western Digital' My Book=C2=AE Home Editio= n=E2=84=A2, >>> specially because of the eSATA connection... >>> I heard they have an internal USB-hub for making the capacity gauge >>> working. >> > I'm sorry, but I fail to see why the above example mentioned qualifies > as Thread Hijacking. Allright. Then just check the headers. :) > He started a new thread to pose his question, and,=20 No, he did not. Check the headers of his mail/post. You'll find: In-Reply-To: <49bf44f10806101229y255520fbna1a6cfd59ae56008@mail.gmail.com= > References: <49bf44f10806100752m3fc15c1ap5a5c97c2084d82a@mail.gmail.com> = <20080610171303.GB9713@nibiru.local> <49bf44f10806101229y255520fb= na1a6cfd59ae56008@mail.gmail.com> >> Please don't hijack threads like this. >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thread_hijacking >> http://groups.google.com/group/linux.gentoo.user/msg/8a540add45e7e9b= 8? >> >> "It is irritating for people using thread-aware e-mail clients... >> In case you didn't know, it happens when you use "reply" for sending >> a new question instead of composing a "new" message." Exactly. > He *did* compose a new message, Yes. In a reply to some other message. That's what people usually call "Thread Hijacking". > there is no Re: in the header=20 True. That's not enough, though. > and no =20 > other content in the message. Doesn't matter. Michael --=20 gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list