[GRLUG] Social norms

[Benjamin Flanders]

On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 3:27 PM, john-thomas richards <jtr at jrichards.org> wrote:
> On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 11:09:23AM -0400, Benjamin Flanders wrote:
>  > What is the social norm.  Isn't that where the normal is commonly
>  > agreed upon?  Is placing responses interspersed throughout the e-mail
>  > commonly agreed upon?
>
>  Wow.  How about breaking this "norm..."  You responded to a message in
>  the middle of a thread, broke the thread (so my mail reader no longer
>  knows this post is part of an existing thread), and changed the subject
>  header even though the subject - while evolving - did not really
>  change.  *That* makes an extended conversation difficult.
>
<Sniped stuff>

I did all that on purpose.  The original conversation was about 64-bit
linux.  I wanted to respond to a not-on-topic topic.  I changed the
Subject Header because of that.

I hoped to remove this conversation from the existing thread because
the existing thread had a lot of great information about 64-bit linux
and didn't want to sully it my meaningless drivel.  I wanted this to
be in a whole new thread so those that want to follow the 64-bit
question can without wading through this stuff.  History has shown
that this topic can get heated and long winded.

I thought I was doing a good thing.  I am sorry if I offended anyone.
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Ben