From: Nikolai Weibull <mailing-lists.ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2005-11-16T07:18:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Forum

Nikolai Weibull wrote:

> Devin Mullins wrote:

> > Nikolai Weibull wrote:

> > > Scoring is precisely what you described yourself.  You can give
> > > messages/threads positive and negative scores depending on various
> > > attributes of said entity.

> > Err? Honest confusion. How is that the same as (or isomorphic to)
> > sorting threads by date of most recent post?

> Ah, I misread.  Scoring allows you to give messages a positive or
> negative score depending on attributes of a message.  The attributes
> that may be scored upon are numerous, so you best consult mutt's manual
> (which has scoring), or if you use NNTP, slrn's manual.  There's also a
> separate document about it: http://slrn.sourceforge.net/docs/score.txt.
> 
> Thus, instead of sorting your threads in "having the most recent
> messages first" mode, you could see to it that uninteresting threads are
> removed/ignored, that certain threads are given a higher score than
> others and sort based on score (set sort=score in mutt).  (You could
> also do 'set sort=threads' and 'set sort_aux=score'.  I don't know for
> sure, but hopefully it'll sort on date if two threads have the same
> score.)

Actually, the best way to do this exactly what you wanted, i.e., sorting
threads by most recent mail is (in mutt):

set sort=threads
set sort_aux=last-date-received

        nikolai

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