fc12 encrypted file system

[Tim]

On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 00:05 -0400, Genes MailLists wrote:
>  Strictly speaking you were not ... you were making a meta comment
> about hijacking - not the topic itself.

Strictly speaking, I was.  I was replying directly to a post, about that
post.  About *what* that post was.  And in response to it.  The message
was directly related to the one I replied to, and properly associated by
the headers.  The one I drew attention to had absolutely nothing to do
with the message it replied to.  *THAT* is hijacking.

My response explained was what wrong, why it was wrong, and how to go
about getting their answer.  Direct and to the point, without even
trying to be insulting (unlike jdow).  Useful information to them, and
to other people who use mailing lists.
> 
>  It is generally considered more appropriate to reply directly to the
> poster to proffer advice .. rather than to the list on such issues.

It is *sometimes* better to do that.  Sometimes the best course of
action is to respond as I did.  If nobody makes a public announcement
about not hijacking, nobody else gets to see that it's unwanted.  Then,
pretty soon, just about all your *new* messages become erroneous
replies.

If you pay attention to this list, you'll see that we occasionally make
such redirective postings to thread hijackers.  We don't respond to
every one.

>  I think that was jdow's point.

That wasn't the point they said.  The point they made was to try and be
insulting, deliberately making a smartarse response just to write an
email, when there wasn't any need to make any further postings to the
thread.  While passing a judgement call on myself being unaware of
something, which they have no information about whether I was aware of
it or not.  There's something seriously wrong with the mental processes
of people who proceed to declare what someone else knows or doesn't
know, without any actual knowledge of that other person.

For the record I am more than well aware of the supposed *irony* of
making the sort of response that I did.  Those of us who respond to such
posts do think twice about doing so.  And like I said before, sometimes
the best action is to do what I did.

jdow was doing what jdow continually does on this list, act the jackass,
simply for the sake of it.  A large proportion of their messages are
just the same.

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