Cory Scott wrote: > 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.
Okay, that's what I thought in the first place. But then you posted a reply to my post that sounded like you were confused by my post, so I started to think I may have misinterpreted. That would be "sort threads by subject". I think the ability to choose a sort method independently of whether threading is on or off has been requested before. I can't find it in bugzilla at the moment, however. As for the "unexpanded" thing, the threads all start collapsed for me and only auto-open if I "go to next unread" and it happens to be inside a thread. So I think there Mozilla does what you want.
