Netiquette on thread hijacking, was "thread policy"

[David Hobby]

William T Goodall wrote:
> On 20 May 2008, at 12:16, Julia Thompson wrote:
> 
>>
>> On Mon, 19 May 2008, David Hobby wrote:
>>
>>> Does anyone view the latter meaning of "thread
>>> hijacking" as a problem?
>> Yes.
>>
> 
> I see it as worse than misquoting since I can just stop reading the  
> posts of someone who misquotes all the time, whereas thread hijacking  
> messes up the threading of all the posts.

William and everybody--

O.K., so it's bad for people who use threaded mailreaders.
Sorry that I've probably done it in the past.

It does not seem to be mentioned in the etiquette guide for
the list:
http://www.mccmedia.com/brin-l/etiquette.htm

Should it be?

				---David

In reply to, Maru