I don't think there is an either/or answer. I'm just glad some of you can see the problem.

I sure don't want to preclude new angles and ideas, either-- but I guess I don't see how simply refreshing the older thread with the new info or question would preclude that. I DO realize that when people DO do that, often the new question or idea is lost in the sea of posts-- if I post a year later than the last of the old thread's posts, pretty soon that new post of mine is hard to spot-- it's hard to make a new starting-point without starting a new thread. OTOH if a Part Two is started, no one bothers to go back and review Part One so the same already-answered questions usually go around and around in the Part Two.

I'm frustrated about this but I hope no one takes it as an attack-- I just wish there was a simple and elegant solution that didn't consume clone-time.

~Susan