Re: OT: Re: Ping: BeeNer

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Re: OT: Re: Ping: BeeNer
\ Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo (23 Aug 2007)

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Subject:	Re: OT: Re: Ping: BeeNer
Group:	Mozilla-general
From:	Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo
Date:	23 Aug 2007

BeeNeR wrote:
> Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote:
>> BeeNeR wrote:
>>> Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote:
>>>> BeeNeR wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Out of curiosity - why are we discussing secnews.netscape.com in
>>>>> this news group?
>>>> There is a huge discussion and arguement going on regarding the above
>>>> question YOU asked, in the mozilla.general newsgroup. Would you
>>>> please jump in and settle that arguement!?
>>>>
>>>> You can't miss is. The subject is "Re: Secnews.Netscape.com" and its
>>>> posted by Jay Garcia
>>>>
>>> Don't know if I settled it or not, but I did jump in. Noticed that
>>> the subject is /way/ off topic now.
>>>
>> thanks for posting there. Hope it settles the quandary. The subject
>> matter in this newsgroup was changed by me, which is permitted.
>> However, off topic discussion is permitted in the mozilla.general
>> newsgroup. The Spam Mooses don't permit it in the support groups.
>>
>
> Thanks Peter - I'm not against OT, but when responses to a thread are
> made that have nothing to do with the thread, the header should be
> changed (as you did in this thread). Failure to do so, in /any/ news
> groups leads to misunderstanding the original thread. It should be
> remembered that some messages do not always make it to the intended
> destination.

some people, like me, forget to change the heading, or to
make a proper followup.

followup to: mo-gen

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