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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: mailing lists vs. news (WAS: Linux vs. FreeBSD)
Date: 26 Jun 1995 01:20:25 +0200
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Coranth Gryphon <gryphon@msgi.com> wrote:

>On newsgroups side of the balance sheet, I  have yet to see
>a mail reader that threads by subject. 

elm.  o)ptions s)ort r)everse <space><space><space><space> i)ndex

so it's finally sorting by Subject.  It cannot sort by reference
however, but the `sort by subject' mode is how i'm tracking the
various mailing list.

One of my reasons to use elm (even though i'm an Emacs fan otherwise
and would certainly vote for Emacs rmail).
-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)