[GRLUG] Social norms

[john-thomas richards]

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 09:57:36AM -0400, Benjamin Flanders wrote:
> 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.

That makes sense.  It is wacky that (as you mentioned in another post)
Google breaks threading on subject header.  I have never seen that
before.  I have seen mail clients that "thread" messages based on
subject, but never one that actually breaks the threading.  Bizarre.

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

Offended?  I cannot imagine how...
-- 
john-thomas
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Lots of people think they're charitable if they give away their old clothes
and things they don't want.  It isn't charity to give away things you want
to get rid of and it isn't a sacrifice to do things you don't mind doing.
Myrtle Reed, author (1874-1911)