On 2017 Mar 12 20:51:38, you wrote to me:

 ml>> what news reader are you using? in t-bird, you simply click the
 ml>> zigzag icon in the message list... mine is on the left of the list...
 ml>> unclicking it puts all the posts is arrival order which is how i
 ml>> normally read fidonet areas anyway...

 NB> That did the trick. Thanks. I don't suppose there's a way to set that
 NB> to all instead of having to click it every time you change newsgroups?

nope... that's a client side option... just like the last read pointers... the
whole thing is backwards from bbses...

 NB> Either way, it does indeed help a bunch regardless.

we do what we can with what he have :)

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