krb5-libs problem ? - About Hijack ...

[Kevork]

Oh !, I understand now ! ... 
I'm very sorry,  I didn't know that detail.

Thank you for the explanation,
I'm sorry for any trouble it could produce.

Best Regards,
Jorge.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matthew Zimmerman" <mzimmerman at virginia.edu>
To: <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 7:53 AM
Subject: Re: krb5-libs problem ?


> On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 06:55:41AM -0300, Kevork wrote:
> > > First: DO NOT hijack foreign threads!
> > Sorry, what did U do wrong ? ... Don't understand you.
> 
> He means don't do a `Reply' to an existing message and change
> the subject to start a discussion on a new topic. You should
> send a `New' message to fedora-list at redhat.com instead.
> 
> A lot of mailreaders have a feature that group messages that
> are replies to one another into a tree structure called
> a thread. If you assume that all the messages in a thread
> are on the same subject, you can eliminate a whole set of
> messages you may not be interested in by deleting the whole
> thread at once, thus saving time.
> 
> However, by replying to an unrelated message, you start a new
> discussion on a new topic that *should* be in a new thread but
> gets mixed into an existing thread, or `foreign', thread. Thus
> if you delete the original thread, you may be throwing away
> messages you are interested in, i.e., on the new topic, without
> knowing about it. This process is widely known as `hijacking'.
> 
> -- 
>       Matt
> 
>       Matthew Zimmerman
>       Interdisciplinary Biophysics, University of Virginia
>       http://www.people.virginia.edu/~mdz4c/
> 
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