>> "Steve" == Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Steve> I don't think people reply to any ol' message to create a new Steve> message, but are replying to a message and were courtious Steve> enough to change the subject and now someone is bitching about Steve> it.
No, this is usually not the case. Just look at these articles. O =[ 118: Cheshire ] PPP Connection Problems O [ 20: John Hasler ] R = [ 37: egm2@jps.net ] R = [ 22: Michael Mitchell ] (newbieQ) Installing X R [ 87: Raymond A. Ingles ] SCSI, IDE, and LILO, oh my! These are a ppp thread and two completely unrelated questions. The problem is not so much for the one reading debian-user, but for the one posting a question. When I enter this group, all threads show collapsed. If the title looks uninteresting, I mark the thread as read. So I won't even see these unrelated postings. "Linux sucks, Debian sucks, you suck. Noone answered me." Not kidnaping existing threads is for the benefit of the one posting the question, not of the one giving the answer. Ciao, Martin