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Nicholas Herlick
29-Aug-2005, 01:30 PM
If this is possible at all, I would suggest that when someone posts a Reply
Group, that its posting date be applied as the new Sent date.

I just replied to a message originally posted in March. My reply is there
to be sure; but when messages are sorted by date Sent, the thread is still
buried down there in March. I am assuming that this reduces its chances of
ever being read.

It could be that someone's last reply provides a new reason for others to
see the thread again. But that would tend not to happen if the typical
reader looks at message headers sorted by date Sent.

I am missing something... like the ability to have a Last Reply date as a
sortable column?

Nick

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Nicholas Herlick
President
Herlick Data Systems
1348 Magnolia Ave.
Redlands, CA 92373
Phone: 909-798-2898
Fax: 909-792-9651
Email: nick@memsys.com
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Dennis Piccioni
29-Aug-2005, 01:37 PM
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 11:30:17 -0700, "Nicholas Herlick"
<nick@memsys.com> wrote:

>If this is possible at all, I would suggest that when someone posts a Reply
>Group, that its posting date be applied as the new Sent date.
>
>I just replied to a message originally posted in March. My reply is there
>to be sure; but when messages are sorted by date Sent, the thread is still
>buried down there in March. I am assuming that this reduces its chances of
>ever being read.
>
>It could be that someone's last reply provides a new reason for others to
>see the thread again. But that would tend not to happen if the typical
>reader looks at message headers sorted by date Sent.
>
>I am missing something... like the ability to have a Last Reply date as a
>sortable column?
>
>Nick
>
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>Nicholas Herlick
>President
>Herlick Data Systems
>1348 Magnolia Ave.
>Redlands, CA 92373
>Phone: 909-798-2898
>Fax: 909-792-9651
>Email: nick@memsys.com
>Web: www.memsys.com
>

Hi Nick

I think this is dependent on your news reader software. For example,
Outlook does a good job with that, but Agent does not.

Regards,
Dennis

Dennis Piccioni
Data Access Worldwide
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