When to start new threads (was: Re: Comments Regarding New 2.5.1 Register)
Geert Janssens
janssens-geert at telenet.be
Fri May 31 04:07:24 EDT 2013
I will admit that it's not always clear when your topic differs sufficiently from the original one
to warrant a new thread.
One clue can be: does the current thread subject match what you want to say ?
The original subject in this case was
"Comments Regarding New 2.5.1 Register"
Your message was about 2.5.2 and getting 3 errors when opening a file on Windows. I don't
see not much overlap in these two, except that you both were testing a new development
release (but not even the same one).
Another rule of thumb I usually use is that I only continue a thread if what I have to say is a
direct answer to it. Or a question directly related to it.
Anything else goes into a new thread for me and sometimes I refer to the original thread from
there.
As said this is not exact science and mixed thread are not the end of the world either. I just
brought it up because your message almost got lost in the original thread for me and thought
maybe you were not aware of that effect. Nothing more :)
Geert
On Thursday 30 May 2013 15:56:52 David Carlson wrote:
On 5/30/2013 11:04 AM, Geert Janssens wrote:
On Wednesday 29 May 2013 08:38:16 David Carlson wrote:
>
> I am the other David- David Carlson.
> Last night I installed 2.5.2 windows build on Windows 7 64 bit. If you
> look at the IRC channel, I started documenting 3 errors when opening a file.
> Please do not shoot the messenger.
> David C
David (Carlson),
I won't shoot the messenger. Thanks for reporting this. I also found your bug report for
this.
One minor item: please don't hijack a thread. The problem you reported is unrelated to
the discussion that was already going on with David T. Instead of replying to an
existing mail, you should write a new mail in this case.
Hijacking threads makes both conversations harder to follow and find again later on.
Geert
Sorry, in my perception at the time, I thought that I was on topic. David C
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