"Al Arduengo" wrote in message
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Replys should stay within the thread from which they originated.

You must be new to Usenet. When a thread goes off on such a tangent that it
has nothing to do with the original post, the polite thing to do is rename
the thread...preferably with a Was: in front of the old name. That way
people who want to follow the original, on-topic discussion can do so
without wading through all of the other, unrelated crap. Let's say we're
discussing images, and cuhulin chimes in that his dog Blueberry
www.cattledog.com just farted in his open mouth. That leads off to a thread
of discussion that has nothing to do with images, like why is his open mouth
so close to Blueberry's ass in the first place? Anyone who wants to follow
the images conversation has to wade through the farting cattledog replies.
Not good.

So then someone renames the thread "Cuhulin sucks dog farts Was: images".

That's good. See, when the replies aren't to the original thread, they don't
belong in the thread they originated in.