Subject: Re: Sorting by Ordered Subject vs Subject

From: [email-masked] (Bob Brody)
Date: 12 May 1995 01:56:43 GMT

Adriel Ickler (txickler@spirit) wrote:
>What is the difference between Ordered Sorting & normal, Ex. Ordered 
>Subject.?

>I looked in the help file but could not find a definition. thanks!

My Help screen via the setup/configuration menu for sort says this:
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  PINE 3.91   HELP FOR SETUP CONFIGURATION 

        OPTION: Sort-Key

This option determines the order in which messages will be displayed in
the Folder Index screen.  Choose from:

 o Date -- Sort folders according to the date and time they were
     sent. On a folder like INBOX, sorting by "Date" should be almost
     identical to sorting by "Arrival".
 o Arrival -- Sort messages into the order in which they arrived.
 o From -- Sort messages by the name of the author of the message.
     Messages with the same author are grouped together. Groups of
     messages are then put into alphabetical order according to message
     author.
 o Subject -- Sort messages by subject. Messages with the same
     subject are grouped together. Pine ignores leading "Re:" and "re:"
     and trailing "(fwd)" when determining the likeness and
     alphabetical order of subject lines. Groups of messages are put
     into alphabetical order according to subject.
 o OrderedSubj -- Grouping of all messages with the same subject
     into alphabetical order according to subject.
   OrderedSubj -- Grouping of all messages with the same subject
     together is done in the same way as sort by subject. With
     "OrderedSubj" however, groups of messages are put into date order
     according to the oldest message on a given subject. This sorting
     provides pseudo threading of messages.
 o ReverseDate -- Like "Date" but the newest message is first.
 o ReverseArrival -- Like "Arrival" but the newest message is first.
 o ReverseFrom -- Like "From" but groups of messages are ordered in
     reverse alphabetical order (Z-A).
 o ReverseSubject -- Like "Subject" but groups of messages are
     ordered in reverse alphabetical order (Z-A).
 o ReverseOrderedSubj -- Like "OrderedSubj" but groups of messages
     are ordered with the newest groups first (according to the first
     message of each group)

Normal default is "arrival".

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Another approach of course is to try some of the sort options while
online, via the $ (dollar sign) key to bring up the sort menu.  Then
watch the screen to see how it sorts and if you like the results.  Via
menu key the sort is temporary per current session.  If you like
results of one way you can later make a configuration change and have
it as your default.

I prefer the Ordered/Subj arrangement for listservs for continuity akin
to threaded discussions while preferring the Arrival sort order for
personal email.  My default is set for Ordered/Subj and I hit a comm
program macro to switch my Inbox (personal email) to Arrival order.

Bob

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From: Adriel Ickler <txickler@spirit>
Date: Thu, 11 May 1995 11:45:01 -0700