[muglo] Netiquette

I agree with Paul.  I'm not an expert on the Netiquette of discussion 
threads, but it makes perfect sense to me that if the subject has 
changed from one topic to another, it should be noted in the subject 
line, and Paul's suggestion re the original thread in parenthesis at 
the end should answer Bill's concern.  Also, if someone was doing a 
search in the MUGLO archives, the thread would be easier to find if 
the new topic was indicated in the subject line.

on 1/21/03 3:21 PM, Bill West at billwest@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>  Just a small comment on your valiant effort to shame us from our =
>  lazyness--if we change the Subject (other than a "Re:") we are breaking the =
>  archive thread of information. Future seekers will not find the message =
>  body of the new Subject.
>

This is my point:

Assuming a message is dealing with a problem on Netscape and a reply has a a
a solution but then goes on to talk about a similar or different Internet
Explorer problem. Then later someone else replies with a comment on the
Internet Explorer rather than the original Netscape query, then to my mind,
this is starting another thread which I do not happen to be interested in.
My point then is that I would rather know that I am on another thread;  by
all means include something like Re: Internet Explorer (formerly Netscape)
initially to show the connection.

I hope this has cleared my thoughts rather than muddied them!!

Paul

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