Thread hijacking

[Amedee Van Gasse (ub)]

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:
>>
>>
> --snip--
>> * 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.

> 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.