Thanks for your apology, but the advice and the reasoning behind it are
quite explicit, and repeated, in the FAQ, which all members are asked to
read before posting!
<http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq>
2.2
please do not start a new thread by replying to a previous posting.
Again, even if you delete the previous posting's contents and change its
title, such practice also messes up archiving.
2.8
Start new threads with fresh postings, not replies: Please do not send a
message starting a new thread by replying to someone else's message on a
different topic. Even if you edit out all the previous content,
archiving software will still pick up the fact that your message is a
reply and that will unnecessarily mess up documentation of mail threads
in the list archives.
So, everyone, please do read that FAQ before posting!
Nick
[email protected]
Daniel Wilde
Nick,
Thanks for your response. Apologies to all for mixing up the existing
thread, I assumed that changing the subject heading was sufficient.
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From: [email protected]
[[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nick Cox
Please don't start a new thread by replying to an existing thread on a
quite different topic.
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