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Re: *** ADMIN: Posting a new message

On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 08:27 -0500, Joe Pluta wrote:
Adam Glauser wrote:
[snip]
This has been discussed before, and neither subject-only nor
message-ID-only is perfect. Personally, I don't think that starting a
new thread by making a new message is too much of a burden.

I think it's silly that we have to do it, is all. All of this
technology, and you can't do a reply-to and change the subject. Maybe
it's not "too much" of a burden, but there's no reason it should be a
burden at all.

As an old geezer, I see advantages to retaining the current
scheme until we have better DWIM technology.

There can be good reasons to change subject within the same
thread. An example would be a focus on one aspect of the
previous posting. More work, yes, but helpful to the
readers. (Okay, I am back to the body <grin />.)

Cheers,
Terry.



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