Thread hijacking

[Wade Smart]

Jozsef wrote:
> Wade Smart wrote:
>> thomas wrote:
>>> Peter Humphrey wrote:
>>>> As a newcomeer to this list I'm intrigued to know whether the hijacking of
>>>> threads is commonplace and accepted here. On other lists I know, any such
>>>> behaviour is stamped on instantly, yet it keeps happening here with impunity.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I was accused of hijacking threads. Then someone told me what hijacking
>>> treads was and I
>>> stopped. Maybe people are clueless to hijacking. I am using Thunderbird
>>> and I would start new
>>> threads by deleting the content of a posting and then make a new one.
>>>
>>> Thomas
>>>
>> Thread hijacking can be either: posting a different problem under a old
>> topic OR deleting the contents of a email and posting a new problem. To
>> start a new thread - start a totally new email.
>>
>> Wade
>>
> 
> I was also wondering about the mailing list, is it something like: you 
> have a problem and you post your message no matter if someone else had 
> the same problem already before on the mailing list, but you didn't 
> notice that or maybe it was long time ago?
> Is that OK or we need to search the archives before posting?
> By the way, I like IRC :)
> 
> Best,
> Jozsef
> 

Its always better to search for solutions before posting. However, I 
have had problems and did exactly know what I was searching for to begin 
with. Say you have no internet on your new setup. Is it the hardware? A 
misconfigured firewall? Your router seperate from the computer? Some 
people are so new to computers, they dont know what they dont know. If 
you find a post last year that works - great! If not, post. Im sure some 
  will find fault with that but, if you dont ask questions that make 
sense to you, you wont get answers to help solve the problem. Someone 
elses question may not sound like its the same problem to you so, ask it 
in your own words.

Wade
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