George Pearson wrote:
> We are suggesting this new posting rule on technical grounds. Please
> note that virtually all of you have already been following this rule
> implicitly. However some recent postings have revealed this as an
> issue.
>
> Here is the text:
>
> "Each of your posted replies should be to a SINGLE canals-list posting.
> Doing otherwise (i.e. responding to multiple posts in the same reply)
> causes a problem for subscribers whose software allows them to display
> messages in hierarchical threads, like the yahoo groups website allows
> and like some email/news readers allow. Replies branch out from the
> original posting, and further branches from those replies, and so on.
> The problem is that a multiple-post-reply message destroys this useful
> view, while providing little, if any, benefit."
>
> Comments welcomed.
>
Yes please, as I use Thunderbird as my mail tool, and this supports
thread viewing.
It is sometimes really useful to see a whole thread view of things.
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Cheers Ian Mac
and thank G&B keep up the good work.
