Many people use mail clients that don't do any sort of threading to follow what's going on on this list; I use Eudora, personally, when in Windows, and the Mozilla mail client when I'm in Linux. It was, quite literally, years before someone finally pointed out to me that in a mail reader or a news reader that supports threading, if I start a new thread I shouldn't reply to an old thread with a new subject line. I'm now very careful to follow that procedure. In my mail client, it makes no difference, but I know it affects other readers.
That's just why it happens; because not everyone uses a newsreader to read this newsgroup, so many people don't even realize what's happening. At 11:22 AM 1/11/2002, l0t3k wrote: >one of my biggest problems, which happens here a lot, is that some people >will ask a completely different question (with a different topic header) >under an existing thread rather than starting a new thread. all it takes is >a few minutes to familiarize oneself with the newsreader, but apparently a >few minutes is too much.. Sliante, Richard S. Crawford http://www.mossroot.com AIM: Buffalo2K ICQ: 11646404 Y!: rscrawford MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "It is only with the heart that we see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." --Antoine de Saint Exupéry "Push the button, Max!" -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
