On Mon, 28 May 2007 15:11:37 +0000, Jose wrote:

I expect so, but that's because sorting by thread and sorting by subject
are different operations. That they yield different results should be
no surprise.

When I didn't know better, I thought that threads were defined by the
subject line.

Fair enough.

There are advantages to sorting by subject line,

Perhaps this is the problem; I'm not aware of these advantages. What are
they?

and some
readers do not sort by threads unless set to "read all". Including
plonked posts.

I'm not aware of readers with this behavior. How is this manifested?
That is, what happens if one is not reading all and one sorts by thread?

- Andrew