Just curious

[Ken Parkes]

I understand usual practise to involve responding to a posting within the
original thread.   In this group there seem to be many responses to a
question which start a new thread; viz. <new python book!!> by vegetax
leads to a new thread <Re:new python book!!> by Gerrit.  Ditto <How does
this function work?>.   Is this a peculiarity of something Pythonites are
using, or is there a different protocol here?

Ken.