Re: Ordering of "threaded by subject" messages

In <20091019092141.GD15705@chris>, Chris G wrote:
> I read a newsgroup where the messages are gatewayed from both a web
> forum and a mailing list. Thus, while some threads have proper
> References: in the headers joining them, up other threads don't and tin
> just does its best on the basis of the Subject: being the same.
> 
> I'd like the non-References threads to be sorted by date rather than
> the (apparently) random order they appear in at the moment.
> 
> So I assumed I needed to set sort_threads_type=4 in my tinrc.  But it

this will sort the order in which the threads appear, not the order
of the articles inside the thread.

> doesn't seem to work, I still get an apparently random order when
> viewing a thread which doesn't have any References:.

sort_article_type=6
but threaded messages will always stick together

> I have done "rtin -u" but it didn't seem to change anything.  This
> *should* do what I want shouldn't it?

no, "-u" will rebuild the cached overview data which is used for
thrading but the threading is always done at runtime.

> While I'm about it I assume that sorting by date won't override the
> actual References: will it?

right

urs
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