The bat of happiness fluttered its wings and whispered to me that
Thomas Fernandez said on Sunday, November 12, 2000:
LK>> I've only been using The Bat! for about 3 weeks now and I've been
LK>> looking in the Help file and I have looking under Dates and Sorting in
LK>> the FAQ but I can't seem to find any reference if you can sort the
LK>> messages in your individual mail folders by first the Subject and
LK>> second by Date. This way on some of my mailing lists the original
LK>> email message would stay at the top of the thread not somewhere in the
LK>> middle.
> If you only sort by subject, wouldn't the mails with the same subject
> automatically be sorted in the order they arrived?
No. In fact, ironically, Lynn's question appears before Thomas's
answer when I sort by subject. This is typical behavior for TB!, and
it's annoying to have to mentally reconstruct a discussion which is
displayed in the wrong order.
> Another way you might want to try is threading by subject. In the
> message list menu, use View / View Threads by... Depending on whether
> the members of the mailing lists use a decnet email client, threading
> by reference might even be better than by subject. Try it out.
Threading seems to work fine, except that threads are shown unexpanded
and when you delete a message, instead of going to the next message in
the thread, it goes to the top message of the next thread, so I gave
up on threading.
I normally read messages in the "preview" window, and seldom
double-click on a message unless I need to see all the headers.
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Rev. Bob "Bob" Crispen
crispen at hiwaay dot net
A child of five could understand this. Fetch me a child of five.
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