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From: david@wubios.wustl.edu (David J. Camp)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Reverse Message Subject
Message-ID: <1990Oct15.081235.6891@wubios.wustl.edu>
Date: 15 Oct 90 08:12:35 GMT
Sender: david@wubios.wustl.edu (David J. Camp)
Organization: Division of Biostatistics, WUMS, St. Louis, MO
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I have started using 'Message Subject' and 'Reverse Message Subject'
sorting order.  It does as expected, and groups messages with the
same subject together.  I would like to request a small change in
the sorting algorithm.  I ask that when using the non-reversed
mode, that the messages within a group appear in Mailbox Order, and 
reverse this when using Reverse Message Subject order.  That would
allow me to use Reverse Message Subject order to read messages
with similiar subjects, with the latest posting first.  It would
also allow people who like a cronological treatment to read them
in the order posted.

The current algorithm shuffles them into an arbitrary sequence, 
which clearly has no advantage.  -David-

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