On Friday, January 21, 2000, 6:49:59 AM, Rob wrote:

> on Thu, 20 Jan 2000, at 08:15:32 local time (GMT -0800), Nick wrote:

>> Still, I'll see a thread where the first message is the original, as it
>> should be, then most, but not all, of the replies are listed in
>> descending order with the little + sign next to each one.

> the replies to the original message, that themselves have been replied to,
> also get a + of course ...

Ahhh... Ok, that's the best explanation I've heard and makes sense.
Thanks Rob.

>> Other combinations I've tried will list the replies _without_ the +
>> signs, but then I'll find the original message stuck somewhere in the
>> middle of the thread, which doesn't make sense to me, and at times will
>> make it difficult to follow the thread.

> i've seen that too ; i think it happens when the system time on someone's
> PC is not 'correct' ...

Alright, I'll buy that. If so then, sorting by creation time would bring
that error out, would it not, whereas sorting by received time wouldn't
allow a system time error like that to show up, correct?

> i'm using :
> view - display - all messages
> view - sort by - creation time
> view - view threads by - subject

Yes, that is the way I have mine now, but I might change to "Sort by -
received time". Thanks for your help Rob.



Nick

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