[plug] Mailing list messages

[Mike Holland]

On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Bret Busby wrote:

> messages later, to read the message that the first message was 
> responding to, when the messages are sorted in  order of the date/time 
> field.

You could try complaining to the Nova Scotian in question (et al?)
or just tell you mailer to sort messages be arrival time.
 
> If the numbering of the messages could be done, this way, it would 
> make reading the messages a bit more meaningful, as the messages could 
> then be sorted in order of the subject field.

Subject sorting is used for threading.

> Surely spell (or whatever the unix utility is named) exists in Linux, 

'ispell' is used by pine. Its not bad.


Mike Holland <mike at golden.wattle.id.au>            Perth, Australia.
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