From: Devin Mullins <twifkak@...>
Date: 2005-11-14T22:34:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Forum

gabriele renzi wrote:

> Devin Mullins ha scritto:
>
>> An advantage that the web forum adds is that it sorts threads by date 
>> of most recent posting, rather than first post. (I wish Thunderbird 
>> had that option.) 
>
> is'nt that what you get by clicking on "date"?

In unthreaded mode, all the posts are intermingled. Right now, I'm 
looking at Re: Rmagic 1.9, Re: Heirarchy T.., Re: [ANN] Ferret, Re: 
rubycocoa, Re: Forum, etc. in the message index pane. I prefer, 
actually, to sort by Order Received because senders' mail clients often 
lie (or are confused) about the current datetime.

In threaded mode, posts are grouped together and put in pretty threads. 
However, a thread that was created at the dawn of time stays at the very 
bottom my list, even if it was just replied to a minute ago. Since I 
only read about 30% of ruby-talk, that means I'd never notice it, 'cause 
it's just another old unread message. Rather, if threads were sorted by 
*most* recent posting, I'd see it as I scroll by the new posts, and get 
to decide what I want to do with it. (You can argue about the utility of 
this feature with yourself, but it is [AFAIK] different from what 
Thunderbird provides.)

Devin