"Ian Mac" <[email protected]> wrote in
message news:[email protected]...
> George Pearson wrote:
>> We are suggesting this new posting rule on technical grounds. Please
>> note that virtually all of you have already been following this rule
>> implicitly. However some recent postings have revealed this as an
>> issue.
>>
>> Here is the text:
>>
>> "Each of your posted replies should be to a SINGLE canals-list posting.
>> Doing otherwise (i.e. responding to multiple posts in the same reply)
>> causes a problem for subscribers whose software allows them to display
>> messages in hierarchical threads, like the yahoo groups website allows
>> and like some email/news readers allow. Replies branch out from the
>> original posting, and further branches from those replies, and so on.
>> The problem is that a multiple-post-reply message destroys this useful
>> view, while providing little, if any, benefit."
>>
>> Comments welcomed.
>>
> Yes please, as I use Thunderbird as my mail tool, and this supports
> thread viewing.
> It is sometimes really useful to see a whole thread view of things.
> --
> Cheers Ian Mac
> and thank G&B keep up the good work.
>
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