Re: thread hijacking

Sorry, I did not know the term "thread hijacking", nor that at least 
some people regard this as bad practice. I had not problems nor 
complaints from anybody about this until this moment. I work on PCs 
since 1991.

I shall avoid replying on e-mails written by other people in the forum 
[email protected] . I do not see any necessity to 
change my behaviour in this context in other conversations, because the 
same behaviour is characteristic for almost all my scientific and 
non-scientific correspondents.

Juris Freimanis


On 2016.05.31. 15:37, Alan Isaac wrote:
>> Am Tue, 31 May 2016 14:25:43 +0300 schrieb Juris Freimanis:
>>> I have not hijacked anything. I received e-mail from Ulrike Fischer
>>> today at 12:08 East European Daylight Saving Time (= GMT + 3h). Ulrike's
>>> e-mail was addressed to the whole list
>>> [email protected], including myself. Your e-mail was
>>> automatically cited In that Ulrike's e-mail. I wrote my e-mail as a
>>> reply to Ulrike's e-mail,
> On 5/31/2016 8:11 AM, Ulrike Fischer wrote:
>> My mail was an answer to Jan's question. When you used it to write
>> your own question a reference to my mail was added in the header.
>> This means that in a threaded view (as I'm using) your mail is part
>> of the thread.
>>
>> You can see how this looks e.g. here
>> http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.miktex
>>
>> This is called "hijacking" a thread and you should better not do it.
>> Apart from the wrong threading it also bears the danger that your
>> mail is burried deep in some old thread. If you have a new question
>> create a new mail and don't use an old one to answer.
>
>
> Illustrated:
> http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Thread%20Hijacking
>
> Cheers,
> Alan
>
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