"El Asesor" wrote:

Gee I looked at the subject, then the contents and I
am totally baffled.

Come on guys/gals -- if your post is for one person
only or you change subject matter --- please change
the subject title.

Don't make a hundred (thousand?) readers open up
something totally unrelated to the subject.

Yeah I know -- who made me a net-police person? But
dog gone I get tired of opening up these posts that
have nothing to do with the subject.

Yeah I know --- then don't open em up. But there is
some good stuff here --- don't want to miss them.


I agree. If someone is going to change the subject of a discussion, please
change the subject line and take it out of the tread. By doing so, you
reduce the distraction for those not interested in the new subject, but also
better attract those who are interested in that new subject (it's no longer
buried in a thread they may not be interested in).

Of course, this can't be done in every case or every time a person has a
quick out-of-context comment, but it should at least be tried when it looks
like the new subject is developing into a major discussion in itself.

And this is not an attempt to be a newsgroup policeman - it's simply a
polite plea from a fellow newsgroup participant.


Dwight Stewart (W5NET)

http://www.qsl.net/w5net/