Yeah, there's no problem with splattering threads. (Steve IS the fan upon which 
any good thread will splatter.) What annoys me is saying/thinking one is doing 
one thing, but actually doing another thing. I know it annoys me when *I* do 
that, usually accidentally because my command of language is so bad. And I 
appreciate it when others call me out for it.

On 5/28/20 12:59 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> 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.


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