On 01/05/2012 07:12, Frank Millman wrote:
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I have had a look at this before, but there is one thing that Google
Groups does that no other reader seems to do, and that is that
messages are sorted according to thread-activity, not original posting
date. This makes it easy to see what has changed since the last time I
checked.
All the other ones I have looked at - Outlook Express, Thunderbird,
and gmane.org, sort by original posting date, so I have to go
backwards to see if any threads have had any new postings.
Maybe there is a setting that I am not aware of. Can anyone enlighten
me?
In Thunderbird, in the list of articles, click on the box at the top
right that says "Date". This will sort articles by date. If the arrow at
the right hand side of the box points upwards, click the box again. This
will sort articles by date with the newest at the top. Then click the
leftmost box at the same height as the "Date" one, which has an icon
that looks like a Tetris block; this will sort the articles into
threads, with those threads that contain the most recent posts at the
top of the list. At least that's how it works on my version of
Thunderbird (11.0.1 and all previous versions I can remember). I don't
know how one would get it to sort threads by OP date, so I don't know
why it's doing that for you.
Whenever I open a newsgroup in Thunderbird, I also find it useful to
click the "Unread" button in the Quick Filter toolbar.
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