On 3/12/2017 9:14 PM, mark lewis -> Nicholas Boel wrote:

 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?

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

Actually, clicking that setting for the newsgroup after you mentioned it, it
seems to remember that setting in the future. After reopening Thunderbird and
arriving on this newsgroup as well as others I disabled threading on, threading
wasn't shown. Impressive!

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Regards,
Nick

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