On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 10:24:06 +1000 Clement <clement@ans.com.au> wrote: > Wayne Topa wrote: >> >>On both occasions you hi-jacked another thread rather then >>starting a new one (bad practice). > > > I DID NOT hi-jack anything. Yes, you did. > If the subject I used is the same as a > previous email, it is pure coincidence. I will search the archives. > Please do not assume too much. Hijacking a thread has *nothing* to do with using a subject that's the same as an earlier thread or message. Hijacking a thread is when one posts a message on a new topic, with a new subject line, by "Replying" to an existing message in the list rather than by posting an entirely new message. The first time you posted your HylaFax problems, you did so by replying to a post of Paul Condon's in the "ALSA setup problem" thread. This is made clear by the "References:" header in that email: } From: Clement <clement@ans.com.au> } Subject: HylaFax receives rubbish } References: <[🔎] 20040801181244.GB7490@mesanetworks.net> <[🔎] 20040802093514.3b4154b6@stax> <[🔎] 20040803021234.GA1047@mesanetworks.net> } } Just tried Hylafax. After spending hours to play around, I finally got [ snip ] If you had simply sent a "new" message, rather than replying, no "References:" header would be present. That header tells mail software that your message is a reply to another message, which had Message ID <[🔎] 20040803021234.GA1047@mesanetworks.net> (which in turn was a reply to a message with Message ID <[🔎] 20040802093514.3b4154b6@stax> and so on). In other words, in that thread, I replied to Paul Condon, he replied to me, and then you replied to him -- but with a new subject line, and a topic of discussion that had nothing to do with the topic previously discussed in the thread. That's hijacking a thread. Similarly, your other post was a reply to a post by Pascal Hakim, in the thread 'can't post to "linux.debian.user" "solved"'. Your references header there was: } References: <[🔎] 87657e4w8d.fsf@jidanni.org> <[🔎] 20040819234322.GA23117@wonderland.linux.it> <[🔎] slrn-0.9.7.4-7239-20102-200408201550-tc@hexane.ssi.swin.edu.au> <[🔎] 20040820083236.GA4620@wonderland.linux.it> <[🔎] cg4p76$8fc$1@sea.gmane.org> <[🔎] 1093009996.6678.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> <[🔎] slrn-0.9.7.4-3238-31964-200408211523-tc@hexane.ssi.swin.edu.au> <[🔎] 20040825094149.GA17728@master.debian.org> That, too, was hijacking a thread. Incidentally, this one -- the one you posted in reply to Pascal Hakim -- was the one that Wayne Topa replied to, letting you know what was up. Your reply to him, however, had "References:" assigned to it so that it's indexed as a reply to yourself, in the *other* thread. It looks like you're having some difficulties with your mail reader. -c -- Chris Metzler cmetzler@speakeasy.snip-me.net (remove "snip-me." to email) "As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized." - Chief Luther Standing Bear
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