[Coco] E-mail Netiquette: How to Start a New Thread

John W. Linville linville at tuxdriver.com
Wed Sep 23 10:31:51 EDT 2015


On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 09:26:46AM -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
> Of the dozens (perhaps hundreds) of email lists in which I participate,
> none of them has as much trouble with people hijacking threads instead
> of starting new threads than this one does.
> 
> http://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/computers/netiquette/email/start-n
> ew-thread.html

Obviously, this link should be on one line...

http://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/computers/netiquette/email/start-new-thread.html
 
> Please -- when you want to start a new thread (i.e. a new subject for
> discussion), send a new message rather than just replying to an
> existing one with a changed subject!
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> John

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John W. Linville		Someday the world will need a hero, and you
linville at tuxdriver.com			might be all we have.  Be ready.


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