threads and post's

[kic]

Please help my silly mind understand the difference between automaticwasher.org post's and thread's?
And why is it impossible the find the topic/subject related to the post. for example:

Post# 36000-2/18/2004-02:27 ||| kenmore1978 (Los Angeles) SUBJECT ...
We stuck it out till 1987,and we then got a Hoover logic 1200.Boy,talk about noisy!! AND unreliable!! In 1990,we got a Hitachi autoset 1000,which i think ...
www.automaticwasher.org/TD/ARCHIVE/.../ARCHIVE-36000.html - ...

 

[kic]

threads and post

p.s
I only ask because I enjoy reading all the threads. English is my 2nd speaking Language and Afikaans is my 1st reading, writing and thinking Language. My mother teaches High School and is very impressed with the sudden Improvement in my English. I told its because I belong to this club and its because of the members here that I can now read and write English as easily as I have always spoken it. although mostly back to front, LOL. but you guys know that by now!

 

[maytagbear]

A thread

is like a chapter of a novel. When a person starts a new topic, they are opening a thread.

A post is like a paragraph (or three) in a novel. A post is the individual replies or thoughts, we hope, which are on the subject of the thread.

Some people get posts confused with email, which is an entirely different matter. Emails are from Yahoo, or Hotmail, or Gmail.

Hope this helped clear up the confusion.

Lawrence/Maytagbear