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- From: Jamie Zawinski <jwz@lucid.com>
- Subject: Re: pointer to article collector?
- In-Reply-To: trost@romulus.reed.edu's message of 11 Aug 92 23:13:11 GMT
- Message-ID: <JWZ.92Aug12132116@thalidomide.lucid.com>
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- References: olstad@msc.edu (Ken Olstad) <9208111644.AA02052@kl.msc.edu>
- <TROST.92Aug11161307@romulus.reed.edu>
- X-Windows: More than enough rope.
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 92 20:21:21 GMT
-
- In article <TROST.92Aug11161307@romulus.reed.edu> trost@romulus.reed.edu (Bill Trost) wrote:
- >
- > Jamie (he must be listening :-) ),
-
- My spies are everywhere...
-
- > have you (or anyone else) looked at making it clever enough to determine
- > what order the messages "should" be in? It should be possible to make it
- > look at the subject lines to determine that "[1/3]" comes before "[2/3]",
- > for example.
-
- That would be nice, but I haven't done it. If sorting alphabetically doesn't
- do it, then I usually just turn off the read-only flag in the Subject buffer
- and reorder the messages by hand before marking them. Kinda low-tech, but it
- gets the job done...
-
- -- Jamie
-