Subject: A question regarding threading

From: Balaji C Krishnan <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 16:09:44 -0500

Hi!
	I currently use Pine to read my mails. From using Tin I know that 
it is possible to thread messages so that all the messages on a 
particular topic appear together. 
	I am teaching a course this semester and am going to teach my 
students the Pine. I was wondering if it may be possible for them to 
thread the messages using Pine. Can you please tell me if the facility 
exists in either Pine or in Netscape. Thanks.

Balaji
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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1996 09:18:39 +0100 (BST)

Whilst Pine can't do "true threading" (by looking at articles' "Xref:"
headers and working out which articles were replies to which others) it
can approximate it (probably closely enough for your needs).

The trick is, once you open a newsgroup, to use Pine's Sort command to
order the articles by "Ordered Subject".  This sorts them first by subject
text and then, where these are the same, date and time of submission.

You do this by typing the two keystrokes:

	$ O

Note that you will have to do this for every folder you open, as it only
affects the current index display; it does not remember the sorting for
the future.

If you wish you can alter the default sort order from Arrival to Ordered
Subject in Pine's Setup Configuration screen.  However this default order
affects ALL your folders: Usenet News and ordinary (mail).  For ordinary
folders sorting by Arrival is often preferred, so you may want to think
about which folders you will be opening more often and set the default
sort order to be the best for those.  This will minimise the number of
times you have to use the "$" (Sort) command.

Cheers,

Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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