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Re: st: Start new threads with new title and without previous content


From   Richard Williams <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Start new threads with new title and without previous content
Date   Sun, 11 Dec 2005 13:06:46 -0500

At 01:00 PM 12/11/2005, Nick Cox wrote:
Replying to an email on another subject without
deleting previous content and without changing
the subject of the posting is poor practice.
To take that a step further - if you use reply, then even if you do change the subject and delete the old content, the archives will usually show you as responding to the original thread. It is best to just start a new thread entirely.


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