Guide: How not to suck on mailing lists: #2. Thread Hijacking

Thread hijacking in email communication is the act of composing a new mail to a mailing list or newsgroup by replying to an existing but unrelated message and just changing the subject line and body of the message instead of composing a new message from scratch. Source

For example, you throw a question to the mailinglist asking if anyone knows something about X and you go like, “Hello guys, does anyone know about X?”. And then someone pops out and reply, “BTW, does anyone know about Y?”.. Like this.

That’s thread hijacking, it’s setting the thread off topic and it’s evil. That should go to the book of sins, heheh.

June 3rd, 2008. BBC, Guides, neighborhood. 3 Comments

Guide: How not to suck on mailing lists: #1. Signatures

Do:

Microsoft: “You’ve got questions. We’ve got dancing paperclips” - animadesign.web.id

If you really need to have a signature (for narcissist purpose of course) you don’t have to make it like a wall of text. Just short and sweet please, like mine (shameless plug, I know, shut up)

Dont:

Dear X,

OK!

Regards,
My Very Cool Name, Title One, Title Two, Title Three
my.name@my-company.com
[mobile icon] 0888888

<hr />

Your Company Name
Your Company Address Line 1
Your Company Address Line 2
Insert all phone, fax and all sort of numbers here

That suck. Big time.

I mean, for fuck’s sake, just compare the bytes you waste on the signature than what you actually write dude (it’s in bold btw). Everyone should leard from me on this, because I’m always right.

PS. Don’t mind me, on a cheesy mood again, now where is that damned moon, tsk

PPS. Yikes, forgot the ‘on’ on the title, my bad.

April 12th, 2008. BBC, Guides, Interesting, neighborhood. 13 Comments