Some posts do not show up in Google Groups

[Rotwang]

On 01/05/2012 07:12, Frank Millman wrote:
> [...]
>
> I have had a look at this before, but there is one thing that Google
> Groups does that no other reader seems to do, and that is that
> messages are sorted according to thread-activity, not original posting
> date. This makes it easy to see what has changed since the last time I
> checked.
>
> All the other ones I have looked at - Outlook Express, Thunderbird,
> and gmane.org, sort by original posting date, so I have to go
> backwards to see if any threads have had any new postings.
>
> Maybe there is a setting that I am not aware of. Can anyone enlighten
> me?

In Thunderbird, in the list of articles, click on the box at the top 
right that says "Date". This will sort articles by date. If the arrow at 
the right hand side of the box points upwards, click the box again. This 
will sort articles by date with the newest at the top. Then click the 
leftmost box at the same height as the "Date" one, which has an icon 
that looks like a Tetris block; this will sort the articles into 
threads, with those threads that contain the most recent posts at the 
top of the list. At least that's how it works on my version of 
Thunderbird (11.0.1 and all previous versions I can remember). I don't 
know how one would get it to sort threads by OP date, so I don't know 
why it's doing that for you.

Whenever I open a newsgroup in Thunderbird, I also find it useful to 
click the "Unread" button in the Quick Filter toolbar.


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