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From: phil@wubios.wustl.edu (J. Philip Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Behavior of ' ' considered inconsistant
Summary: It does fine the way it is
Message-ID: <452@wubios.wustl.edu>
Date: 8 May 89 10:09:02 GMT
References: <1415@lokkur.UUCP>
Reply-To: phil@wubios.UUCP (J. Philip Miller)
Organization: Washington University (St. Louis)
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In article <1415@lokkur.UUCP> scs@lokkur.dexter.mi.us (Steve Simmons) writes:
>If you have your 'sorting' criteria set up by date, that's fine -- you
>proceed thru your unread messages from oldest to newest.  But if you
>have the order reversed (newest is 1, oldest is max) using the space
>bar to navigate thru messages does the opposite of what you want.  For
>2.3 I'd suggest this be changed so that the ' ' direction is inverted
>when the user does a 'reverse' setting on date.


NO, NO, NO

The reason that I have sorted my messages from newest to oldest is so that I
can read the mail IN THAT ORDER.  Otherwise I find myself writing answers to
notes that are superceeded in a later note.

Please leave as it is.
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