Hard drives rambling, was Re: [mostly solved] Fish won't work (long)

[Derek Broughton]

GreyGeek wrote:

> Thorny wrote:
>> On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:32:09 +0200, Myriam Schweingruber posted:
>>
>>   
>>> Hi Steven, Tony and others,
>>>
>>> On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 18:22, Steven Vollom
>>> <stevenvollom at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>>     
>>>> On Thursday 16 April 2009 7:35:43 am Tony Sivori wrote:
>>>>       
>>>>> On Mon, 13 Apr 2009 00:25:08 -0400, Steven Vollom wrote:
>>>>>         
>>> [snipped harddisk rambling and thread hijacking]
>>>
>>> just to remind you that the topic of this thread is fish... why you all
>>> talk about hard drives now is a pure mystery to me :(
>>>
>>> Please, keep the topic or else start a new thread! Is it so difficult?
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards, Myriam.
>>>     
>>
>> Myriam, would you please reply to the thread you want to answer, just
>> sticking your post and comments in just anywhere makes things more
>> confusing, even when they do reference the subject correctly. If you
>> couldn't follow how it changed to OT, perhaps it's because you didn't
>> read the whole topic before answering. Then you broke threading. To use
>> your phrase, is it so difficult?
>>
>>   
> I'll have to agree with Myriam  on this one, Thorny. 

I [marginally] agree with Myriam ...

> If thread content 
> isn't kept to the subject line then chaos reigns 

"marginally" because chaos is good :-)

But Thorny's point is right regardless.  This is at least the second time
I've seen Myriam make this complaint - by starting a new thread.  You can't
expect people to understand the complaint unless you _keep_ the complaint
in the thread you're complaining about.  And those people who are most
upsetting her will probably never even realize it...

> and it will be 
> difficult to find solutions to problems later on.   Rather than
> hijacking a thread and its readers starting a new thread with an
> appropriately labled subject line is the right thing to do, and that
> isn't so hard either.

Hijacking is one thing - and it annoys the heck out of me - but thread
_drift_ is perfectly normal and imo totally acceptable.  The longer a
thread exists, the less resemblance it ever has to the original post - but
that doesn't mean that somebody should have changed the subject anywhere
along the line.  I prefer not to ever change subjects - because some people
only thread by subject - unless there's an abrupt change of topic.
-- 
derek