Did Marc Bituagan deliberately do exactly what I urged him not to, to
cock a snook at my plea?

Brian

Brian Ellis wrote:
> I'm sorry, but a few members here seem to have ignored, of late,
> reasonable discipline in the use of threads.
>
> Background: many members use their e-mail clients to sort the posts into
> threads. This has the advantage that, theoretically, the initial post is
> followed by all the answers in chronological and hierarchical orders.
> This makes following a subject easy-peasy-lemon-squeezy. The other
> choices are purely chronological, which means that related posts may be
> separated by a dozen others on half-a-dozen different subjects.
> Alternatively, users may manually sort their messages.
>
> Problem: some members, who may be unaware of the advantages of threading
> in their e-mail client, start a new and unrelated subject by clicking
> 'Reply' in an existing thread. This new subject therefore appears to be
> a reply to the old subject, when it is nothing of the sort. This can be
> repeated ad infinitum, or rather ad nauseam. One thread recently housed
> six different and unrelated subjects mixed higglety-pigglety.
>
> Solution: I URGE members here to:
> - a) always to start a new subject by addressing the post to Technet
> from their address book; NEVER start a new subject by using 'Reply' or
> 'Reply All'.
> - b) always to reply to an existing subject by clicking 'Reply' or
> 'Reply All'; NEVER start a new thread for an existing subject.
>
> Thank you all for listening to my heartfelt plea!
>
> Brian
>
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