"JoeU2004" wrote in message
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"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.
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"Without that feature, it seems like a nightmare to track
updates to an interesting NG."
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Using OE, I have no trouble tracking updates to messages.
Your settings must be screwed.
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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.

--
Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum