On Mon, 28 May 2007 21:29:37 -0400, Jose wrote:

When a subject line is changed, it is a good indication that the
conversation has changed. (the converse is of course not true). Perhaps
it's a bug (or feature) in my reader (Netscape 7.2) that when sorting by
threads, the sort list can't be alphabetized.

My newsreader doesn't "sort" by thread. It will "group" by thread. This
does act a lot like sorting, in that the messages w/in a thread are
displayed in an order consistent with their relationships (ie. a reply to
A will follow A). But it doesn't sort over multiple threads as those
messages not in a same thread have no relation on which an ordering
decision can be made.

So there's some other sort criteria for that (date, subject, received
date, etc.) that used for this purpose.

Netscape does it differently?

[...]


Maybe my sort-by-thread is just buggy. But I doubt I'm the only one
with buggy software.

The Internet isn't bug-free yet?

From what you're describing, it sounds like Netscape's news reading
capability is broken in several different ways. Why not simply use
something else? There are plenty of alternatives; it seems silly to
settle, even if it is a small thing (ie. not an important issue, like
high-wing vs. low-wing {8^).

- Andrew