can this be said: Please compose a new email for every new date and not use the same

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can this be said:

Please compose a new email for every new date and not use the same thread because it becomes clustered and the subject title remains the same so...

Does it make sense?
 

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It doesn't make sense to me. The whole thing I mean, not just "every new date".
 

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I don't know what you're trying to say so it's impossible to make it make sense. Give us the information you're trying to impart in shorter, clearer sentences, using different words.
 

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You talked about e-mail and separate dates, then jumped to thread and subject title. The person reading your message has no idea how the different items are related. There is no logic, one item does not follow from another

What becomes cluttered(not clustered)? Who wrote the message, to whom and for what purpose?

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I'm trying to ask my friend to compose a new email with a different subject title because she keeps replying with the same email that I sent her a week ago and it's still has the same subject title.
 

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Please reply your e-mails for a new date on a fresh sheet with a new subject title.
Do not use write on the same sheet with the same subject title with all the previous mails duplicated.
This will make it easier for me to sort out and retrieve mails according to date.

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Batman, you can say "When you reply to my e-mail, please start a new e-mail with a different title in the subject line."
 

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Ted, "Please reply your e-mails" is incorrect. Also, I have never heard a new e-mail referred to as a "fresh sheet". That sounds like paper.

In addition, "Do not use write on the same sheet" is incorrect.
 

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Ted, "Please reply your e-mails" is incorrect. Also, I have never heard a new e-mail referred to as a "fresh sheet". That sounds like paper.

In addition, "Do not use write on the same sheet" is incorrect.

Mike, why are the sentences incorrect?
I used 'sheet' which is understood to be an 'electronic sheet' on the computer screen.
 

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It's a new "page" on the screen. "Sheet" only makes me think of a sheet of paper, too.
"Please reply your emails" is grammatically incorrect. "Please reply to my emails ..." or "Please give your email replies ...".

As far as the OP's question is concerned, I'd say "Please change the subject line [now that we're talking about a new subject]".
 

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I usually hear 'page' – not 'sheet'.
 

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Even though I said it should be "page" in my last post, I wouldn't use that when talking about an email, only about a Word document. A new email is just that - a new email.
 

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Who do you call the 'blank space/page/sheet' on the computer screen provided by Hotmail/Yahoo/Google,etc. that you write your e-mail then?
 

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Batman, you know YOU can change the subject when you reply too, right?
Or you can start a new email chain if the old one no longer seems relevant? It's a shared responsibility.

Ted, when I click on "new email" it has honestly never occurred to me to call that anything. It's a "new email."
 

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It's just a "new email" for me too.
 
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