preventing casual observation of dir content

On Sat, 17 Oct 2009 14:39:42 -0500, Harry Putnam <reader (AT) newsguy (DOT) com>
wrote:

Josiah Jenkins <josiah-jenkins (AT) somewhere_else (DOT) invalid> writes:

Hey Bub... I'm Harry Putnam <reader (AT) newsguy (DOT) com>, the guy who started
this thread. Instead of acting like you were raised by goats or
something, I'd appreciate you not hi-jacking my thread. Start your
own next time. You've nearly derailed by subject. Someone with
answers to my question or observations about it may well move on and I
don't get the input... but you do. Very ill-mannered.

My apologies, Harry. In the group I usually post in, it's common
practice to change the header to AVOID drift in the original thread.

Fortunately I did get a couple answers.. but with no thanks to you.
On the other hand, its not the greatest offense in the world and it
appears your intentions were no really to bogart the thread,

Certainly not.

So on a lighter note please do not grab someones thread and change the
subject, not when a new thread would be in order for your different topic.

In retrospect, it was the same topic, the .htaccess file and what
could be done with it . . . however . . .
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Harry Putnam wrote:

Josiah Jenkins <josiah-jenkins (AT) somewhere_else (DOT) invalid> writes:

Hey Bub... I'm Harry Putnam <reader (AT) newsguy (DOT) com>, the guy who started
this thread. Instead of acting like you were raised by goats or
something, I'd appreciate you not hi-jacking my thread. Start your
own next time. You've nearly derailed by subject. Someone with
answers to my question or observations about it may well move on and I
don't get the input... but you do. Very ill-mannered.

Fortunately I did get a couple answers.. but with no thanks to you.
On the other hand, its not the greatest offense in the world and it
appears your intentions were no really to bogart the thread,

So on a lighter note please do not grab someones thread and change the
subject, not when a new thread would be in order for your different topic.

I'm not sure the proper Usenet etiquette, but I followed and
participated in answering. Granted Josiah reversed the logic ("I want
to do the opposite."), but the methodologies are the same, "how to turn
directory listing on and off." I fail to see where anything was
"hijacked."

Now, if he had taken things in an entirely different direction, which
sometimes happens, and it usurped your ability to obtain a valid answer
you might have a legitimate complaint, but I seriously doubt it.

--
Bill