A request: Please compose a new message to start a new thread

[Bruce Weaver]

Fellow list members, I am writing to ask that when starting a new thread, you compose a new message rather than responding to an old one and changing the subject.  When you use the latter method, the new thread gets buried in the old one in the Nabble archive for the list--and that makes it a lot more difficult to go back and find posts.  For example, I was looking for the "random vs fixed effects coefficients - LMM" again this morning, but struggled, because it was hidden in the "Group Based Trajectory Analysis" thread (http://spssx-discussion.1045642.n5.nabble.com/Group-Based-Trajectory-Analysis-td4857707.htm).  Thanks for considering!

Cheers,
Bruce

[Matthew Fuller-Tyszkiewicz]

Hi,

I'm away on conference leave until Friday 7th October. I will have limited access to my email account while away, and willl endeavour to return your emails shortly after my return.

Cheers,
Matt.

 

[David Marso]

Bruce,
  You beat me to the punch!  I was pondering this last night (after months of tolerating the threading) and was trying to come up with the best way to respond to it.  Of course hard to tell whether anyone will read your message and give up their bad habits!  
In support, David

Bruce Weaver wrote

Fellow list members, I am writing to ask that when starting a new thread, you compose a new message rather than responding to an old one and changing the subject.  When you use the latter method, the new thread gets buried in the old one in the Nabble archive for the list--and that makes it a lot more difficult to go back and find posts.  For example, I was looking for the "random vs fixed effects coefficients - LMM" again this morning, but struggled, because it was hidden in the "Group Based Trajectory Analysis" thread (http://spssx-discussion.1045642.n5.nabble.com/Group-Based-Trajectory-Analysis-td4857707.htm).  Thanks for considering!

Cheers,
Bruce

[parisec]

Interesting. I have been on this list for many years and used the same process. I have emails from the list automatically directed to an email folder in outlook. I then have personal folders set with different topics where i drag messages that pertain to one of these topics. I didn't even know the nabble option existed.

Thanks for the heads up!

-----Original Message-----
From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of David Marso
Sent: Monday, October 03, 2011 8:17 AM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Re: A request: Please compose a new message to start a new thread

Bruce,
  You beat me to the punch!  I was pondering this last night (after months of tolerating the threading) and was trying to come up with the best way to respond to it.  Of course hard to tell whether anyone will read your message and give up their bad habits!
In support, David

Bruce Weaver wrote:

>
> Fellow list members, I am writing to ask that when starting a new
> thread, you compose a *new* message rather than responding to an old
> one and changing the subject.  When you use the latter method, the new
> thread gets buried in the old one in the Nabble archive for the
> list--and that makes it a lot more difficult to go back and find
> posts.  For example, I was looking for the "random vs fixed effects
> coefficients - LMM" again this morning, but struggled, because it was
> hidden in the "Group Based Trajectory Analysis" thread
> (http://spssx-discussion.1045642.n5.nabble.com/Group-Based-Trajectory-Analysis-td4857707.htm).
> Thanks for considering!
>
> Cheers,
> Bruce
>

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[Bethany Cockburn]

Thanks for pointing this out - I didn't realize that it is tracked that way!  I assumed new subject line = new search.
Thanks, guys!
Bethany
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From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [[hidden email]] On Behalf Of David Marso [[hidden email]]
Sent: Monday, October 03, 2011 11:16 AM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Re: A request: Please compose a new message to start a new thread

Bruce,
  You beat me to the punch!  I was pondering this last night (after months
of tolerating the threading) and was trying to come up with the best way to
respond to it.  Of course hard to tell whether anyone will read your message
and give up their bad habits!
In support, David

Bruce Weaver wrote:

>
> Fellow list members, I am writing to ask that when starting a new thread,
> you compose a *new* message rather than responding to an old one and
> changing the subject.  When you use the latter method, the new thread gets
> buried in the old one in the Nabble archive for the list--and that makes
> it a lot more difficult to go back and find posts.  For example, I was
> looking for the "random vs fixed effects coefficients - LMM" again this
> morning, but struggled, because it was hidden in the "Group Based
> Trajectory Analysis" thread
> (http://spssx-discussion.1045642.n5.nabble.com/Group-Based-Trajectory-Analysis-td4857707.htm).
> Thanks for considering!
>
> Cheers,
> Bruce
>

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[David Marso]

FWIW:  The "old" archives at http://listserv.uga.edu/archives/spssx-l.html retain threading based on topic and are not affected by the "reply/change subject" approach.
OTOH:  Nabble gets confused and collates under the original topic.
BTW:  I've been wondering for awhile; anybody know what happened to everything prior to 1996?

Bruce Weaver wrote

Fellow list members, I am writing to ask that when starting a new thread, you compose a new message rather than responding to an old one and changing the subject.  When you use the latter method, the new thread gets buried in the old one in the Nabble archive for the list--and that makes it a lot more difficult to go back and find posts.  For example, I was looking for the "random vs fixed effects coefficients - LMM" again this morning, but struggled, because it was hidden in the "Group Based Trajectory Analysis" thread (http://spssx-discussion.1045642.n5.nabble.com/Group-Based-Trajectory-Analysis-td4857707.htm).  Thanks for considering!

Cheers,
Bruce