Re: Hijacking a thread: (Was: Why is implicit and explicit 'nil' treated differently?)

[Sean Conner <sean@...>]

It was thus said that the Great Andrew Starks once stated:
> On Sunday, April 19, 2015, Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > 2015-04-19 14:27 GMT+02:00 Lorenzo Donati <lorenzodonatibz@tiscali.it
> > <javascript:;>>:
> > >
> > >
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > Please, don't highjack threads like this (it's not the first time you do
> > > it).
> > >
> > > If you want to begin a new thread send a new mail message to the mailing
> > > list with a new subject, don't reply to another thread changing its
> > subject.
> >
> > It is unfortunate when a post amounting to the policing of netiquette
> > itself commits a solecism. In this case, the post I have quoted contains
> > literally a pair of brackets enclosing three dots. Clicking on it dos not
> > reveal extra text, so it is not possible to tell from the post alone which
> > previous post is being criticised.

  I don't know what email client Dirk uses, but I don't know of any that
supports collapsible text like he describes.  I do believe he made a joke.

> ...nor was it possible to do so from reading the thread. I could only
> guess that he meant me and my diversion into __index. It wasn't
> disrespectful or *that* off topic.

  Lorenzo was replying to tonyp@acm.org.  The email client I use can sort
the email messages by threading:

1850 r   Apr 17 Soni L.         ( 173) Varargs efficiency
1851   F Apr 17 To Lua mailing  (  98) |->
1852     Apr 18 Soni L.         (  30) | ->
1853     Apr 18 Tim Hill        (  26) |   ->
1854     Apr 18 Soni L.         (  19) |     ->
1855     Apr 18 Hisham          (  40) |       |->
1856     Apr 18 tonyp@acm.org   ( 142) |       | ->Why is implicit and explicit 'nil' treated differently?
1857     Apr 18 Coda Highland   (  58) |       |   |->
1858     Apr 18 Jan Behrens     ( 123) |       |   |->
1859     Apr 18 Andrew Starks   ( 322) |       |   | ->
1860     Apr 18 Andrew Starks   ( 340) |       |   |   ->
1861     Apr 19 Jan Behrens     (  90) |       |   |     ->
1862     Apr 19 Lorenzo Donati  (  13) |       |   ->
1863 r   Apr 18 Tim Hill        (  63) |       ->
1864   F Apr 18 To Lua mailing  (  22) |         ->
1865     Apr 18 Andrew Starks   ( 115) |           ->
1866     Apr 18 Dirk Laurie     (  10) ->

  It's plain here that tonyp@acm.org replied to Hisham's message when he
created the new thread.  So it wasn't Andrew that Lorenzo was chiding.

  -spc (...)