"NormanM" wrote:
I don't know of any newsreader which sorts the
article list by date of the most recent followup.

FYI, Google Groups (web interface) provides that option. Also, I had used a
newsreader on a UNIX system that provided that option.

Without that feature, it seems like a nightmare to track updates to an
interesting NG.

As I mentioned, with OE6, we can sort by the "watch" flag. But first, that
requires that I set the "watch" flag for each interesting thread. And
second, that still does not indicate whether or not there were recent
contributions to the thread. Sometimes what catches my interest is not so
much the thread title, but a recent response -- sometimes the author, but
often just the fact that there is a response.

For example, after "watching" a thread for some time, I will remove the
"watch" flag in order to keep the focus on recent threads to "watch". But a
contribution a long time later might catch my interest. Actually, that
would be true whether or not I remove the "watch" flag. Eventually, the
"watch" list might become so long that I will notice changes in much earlier
threads.

It seems to me that by sorting only by the date of the first message in a
thread, I am forced to expand each (or all) threads and manually look for
recent changes. That's error-prone. If I had not read all follow-ups, even
the bold-face font is not sufficient to alert me to a recent change.

If I am overlooking an OE6 feature that would amelioriate that problem, I
would welcome the education.


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"NormanM" wrote in message
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On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:41:47 -0800, JoeU2004 wrote:

Normally, it appears that OE6 sorts newsgroup postings by the
date of the first message of a thread ("conversation").

I would like OE6 to sort newsgroup threads based on the date
of the most-recent message to each thread.

Can that be done?

I know that I can set the "watch" flag and view "sort by watch".
That's not the same thing.

I don't know of any newsreader which sorts the article list by date of the
most recent followup. They all sort by the posting date of the original
article in the thread.

I understand that "watch" isn't the same as what you want, but it is all
that you have to approximate what you want: This is true for *any* news
reader that I know of.

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Norman
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