Garth Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> Cory Scott wrote: >> Garth Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: >> >> >>>toylet [mozilla] wrote: >>> >>>>Cory Scott wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>>Is it possible to arrange messages by subject AND collapse all >>>>>threads? It seems I can only do one or the other. >>>>> >>>>>Cory >>>>> >>>>That wouldn't be easy ... think about it. >>>>You don't thread a message by a subject, but >>>>by fields (one is reply-to) in the header. >>>>Not as trivial as you think though do-able. >>>> >>>I think he means thread normally, but order threads by subject >>>(instead of by date). >>> >>>(message order fixed to remove top-posting; please bottom-post or >>>inline responses, thx) >> >> I thought I knew what a thread was. Maybe I don't. Essentially, I >> want to read news the way I used to in Outlook Express: leave grouped >> messages unexpanded and sort by subject. So, is this possible with >> Mozilla's news reader? > > That's what you said in the first place. We're all confused because it > isn't at all clear. Do you mean threading normally and sorting the > threads by subject, or do you mean threading by subject rather than by > references? And what do you mean by "unexpanded"? > > I want to see each subject listed only once. I don't want to see all the replies to that subject unless I'm interested. I also want the subjects listed alphabetically. Is that clearer? Surely someone here has used Outlook Express before. That's what I'm trying to mimic. Cory
