Starting a new thread with a reply to an old or existing thread. (Was: Twitter)

[Derek Broughton]

Ian wrote:

> Derek Broughton wrote:
>> golephish at gmail.com wrote:
>>
>> Beside the annoyance factor, it is likely to get your question completely
>> ignored by people who have already decided they have nothing to add to
>> the original thread.
> 
> Perhaps this individual is new to lists.  Maybe someone could offer an
> explanation
> as to /why/ this is a bad habit.  

I thought I did.  When you read mail in a threaded view, with a good mail 
program, you can choose to ignore all new messages in the thread.  On a high 
volume list, most of us tend to do that when there's nothing we can 
contribute to the subject in question.  When people ask completely new 
questions in old threads, if we've already decided not to read those 
threads, their questions won't be seen.  It's not that we actively refuse to 
respond - it's that we won't even know a question was asked.