Ken Heard wrote: > Sthu Deus wrote: > > Good day. > > > > I want to continue an old talk that once was on the list. How I can do > > it? - How I can direct my reply to that very thread? > > I seem to remember that sometime in the past people objected to an "old" > thread being "reopened" by a new post to it. So, three questions: It seems strange to me that someone would object to something like that. I have a hard time thinking of a reason. > 1. Is it halal or kosher to reopen an "old" thread? In my opinion it is okay. If it is quite old then I usually refer to an archive of the previous message by a URL so that people who have not kept the older discussion thread can easily review it in the archive if they care. If it were two months ago I wouldn't do anything special at all. Things like this are a judgement call. > 2. How old is "old" should old be? Three days? Three months? Three > years? If it were three months ago I would probably just include a URL to the archive in the message as a nicety and not worry about it too much. Three months is the blink of an eye on a mailing list. But at the same time the "'net has no memory" because people forget things so quickly. If it were three years ago then I would very likely simply open a new message. In the new message I would refer to the old message thread. But then I would simply launch into the disussion about the same topic but in the new message thread. If it has been that long then I think it would make sense to just start a new message. If you were chatting with your friends over lunch you would say something like, "Hey, you know how in the old days we always talked about <topic> but never did anything about it? Well I am going to do something about it now." > 3. Does it really matter? I wouldn't worry about it. Bob
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