[comp.mail.elm] Order of index

ssowder@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Sean Sowder) (05/17/91)

Is there a way to get the index of mail to be shown in the order of when
they arrived.  I am on a mailing list and it is quite a pain to have to
read
RE: NOTHING
before i read
NOTHING

So can this be reversed?
-Sid
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dattier@chinet.chi.il.us (David W. Tamkin) (05/17/91)

ssowder@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Sean Sowder) wrote in
<1991May16.180603.26992@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> in comp.mail.elm:

| Is there a way to get the index of mail to be shown in the order of when
| they arrived.  I am on a mailing list and it is quite a pain to have to
| read
| RE: NOTHING
| before i read
| NOTHING
| 
| So can this be reversed?
| -Sid

You can sort by Date Mail Sent or Date Mail Received.  One problem I've
had with sorting by Date Mail Sent is that there is no correction for time
zones: if Foo submits to a reflector at 10:00:00 EDT, and Bar receives it
fifteen minutes later at 7:15:00 PDT and answers at 8:20:00 PDT on the same
date, when I read my mail later, 8:20:00 is treated as earlier than 10:00:00
and the response is put first if I sort by Date Mail Sent.

Date Mail Received is a little better, but unless you have moved things
around, for your main incoming folder it comes out pretty much the same as
Mailbox Order.

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