Jeff Zeitlin wrote:

> Thomas RUX wrote:
>
>> What does the current discussion have to do with the History of the Imperium Working Group CD/Files?
>>
>> A very confused old retired submarine sailor,
>
> Mr Rux, meet "Thread Drift".  Thread drift, this is Tom Rux; he seems to
> have never previously encountered you... :)

This, of course, is one consequence but the other part of "thread drift" is that if one writes something particularly interesting under a Subject heading that is unrelated to the interesting commentary, someone else might not read it because they had started deleting messages with that Subject heading unread a while ago. . . .

Cheers,

David
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"There had been the time he'd mentioned the secession of Canada from the British Commonwealth. . . ."- Edward Chalmers (H. Beam Piper), "The Edge of the Knife"