Those forking new threads should favor 'new post' over 'reply.'  A 'reply' leaves embedded references to the old thread, misaligning newsreaders.  (Yeah I can fiddle with options, but just use new post as a courtesy.)

This etiquette will improve signal-to-noise on D news because we can attend just the threads that interest us.  I would encourage more forking because D newsgroup threads tend to wander around quite a lot.  (Example - Ilya, if you want to talk about Icon string scanning, start a new thread.)

Mark