[bfprog] Administrivia: Starting new topics

[ScratchMonkey]

For those new to mailing lists, please don't start a new topic by replying 
to an existing one. (Continuing a topic with a more-specific subject line 
is fine. Changing the subject to match a drift in the thread is ok, too.)

The reason is that each reply carries a "References" header that hooks it 
to the replied-to message. This is how threading mail readers reconstruct 
threads for display. If you start a new thread by replying to an existing 
one, then your question will be buried in someone else's discussion, and 
people not interested in the other question will probably not see your 
question.

This is meant as a tip, not a complaint or admonishment. So no need to 
apologize if you've done this.

While you're thinking about it, right-click on the From address and add the 
address of this list to your Mailing Lists address book. That makes it easy 
to start a new message without opening up the folder with messages from 
this list. (You *do* filter list messages to their own per-list folder, 
don't you? ;) The "List-ID" header is the best header to use for list 
filtering.)