Steve writes:

< I will cop to being guilty of free-associative riffing off of other
people's threads.   When Owen was active here he used to chide us all
about "good thread hygiene" and "thread hijacking".   We (me at the
vanguard perhaps) have become quite sloppy in this.  >

I don't have much trouble backtracking to an origination topic (if it has 
momentum) or just running with a new topic.    A title makes more sense after a 
trajectory has played out.   All of the active discussion lists or Usenet 
groups I've been on have had this property.

Marcus
 

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