In article , Janet Baraclough
wrote:

The message
from Stan The Man contains these words in a thread about
hosepipe bans

All I ask is a compromise -- that someone pursuing an off-topic
discussion has the courtesy to start a new thread with an appropriate
subject, eg "OT: Naturism (was Hosepipe Ban)". This is the universally
adopted guideline for the rest of usenet and I can't see why it's such
an issue.

Aren't you part of the universe?

One can't help noticing that you failed to start a new thread with an
appropriate header for your netiquette discussion.

Janet.

Indeed, mea culpa - but I was trying not to make the discussion
unnecessarily prominent since the people I was addressing had all
posted in this thread...