Re: Re: IMPORTANT about asking QUESTIONS

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..

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