Re: Sorting threads after gathering threads

[Dan Christensen]

Michael Welsh Duggan <mwd@md5i.com> writes:

> But this doesn't seem to do what I want.  It looks like Gnus makes
> threads, sorts them, gathers the threads, and then sorts within the
> threads.  The upshot is my threads get gathered correctly, and the
> messages in a thread are sorted correctly, but the threads are sorted by
> (I believe accident) the oldest message in each thread, rather than the
> most recent.

You are right that this is what Gnus does, and I agree that it should be
changed.  But there are technical details that would have to be figured
out in order to do that.  See the thread from 2011 that begins with:

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/78745/focus=79015

Dan