>Glad to see you've also adopted the dash rather than the colon after "OT" in >a subject line. I was starting to think that it was only me who was >irritated by the splitting of the thread opener and its replies, which >happens when a colon is used.
Aha. Never knew that. Will comply. > >For the pedantic, the reason is that Outlook threading (perhaps other mail >readers too) ignores the characters preceding the first colon, but ONLY the >first colon, when it sets the alphabetical order of posts. Therefore the >thread opener will be listed according to the first letter after "OT:", but >the replies will be listed under "O" because it is the first character after >"Re:", regardless of the intended subject name. Using a dash instead of a >colon after OT fixes the anomoly. I have my mail sorted by time, latest at the top. I subscribe by digest, so at the moment this is the easiest way to go for me. In late June I am getting broadband, so will be able to subscribe properly and then I will need a totally different filtering system! But of course, then I can set up the infamous Kill-file :-] Thanks. Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=====| www.macads.co.uk/snaps _____________________________
