Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
Could this thread please be kept on topic?
You're (probably) assuming that if people hadn't changed the topic, more
traffic would be generated on your original topic. I sincerely doubt
this is true. I don't think anyone is discouraged from replying to your
original topic by the mere presence of a diverging thread.
The new topic is perfectly on-topic on this mailing list, so you're
unlikely to succeed in prohibiting it. But even if it was off-topic, you
would merely force it to be moved to another list, but you would still
not encourage increased discussion of your original topic.
Timwi