Slightly OT - Posts not replied to

Caputo, Luke A SPC RES USAR luke.caputo at us.army.mil
Sat Jul 26 22:17:33 UTC 2008


On Sat, 2008-07-26 at 23:12 +0100, andy baxter wrote:
> Caputo, Luke A SPC RES USAR wrote:
> > On Sat, 2008-07-26 at 23:03 +0100, andy baxter wrote:
> >   
> >> Alan Milnes wrote:
> >>     
> >>> Is there an add-on for Thunderbird, or another email client, that will 
> >>> let me instantly see what posts have not been replied to?
> >>>
> >>> When I have a few minutes spare I like to browse back up the list for 
> >>> such messages and see if I can answer them, or request more information.
> >>>
> >>> Alan
> >>>
> >>>   
> >>>       
> >> You can nearly do this in thunderbird, but not quite - if you add the 
> >> 'total' column to the list display, this shows the total number of 
> >> messages in the thread; unfortunately thunderbird won't let you sort on 
> >> this column at the moment, so it doesn't quite work. Maybe you could 
> >> submit a bug report asking them if they could add the ability to sort on 
> >> 'total'?
> >>
> >> andy.
> >>
> >>     
> >
> > umm, if you set it up in thread view, itll show which one hasnt had any
> > replies, because it wont be stacked. thread view follows the threads in
> > order of post. so, the last addition to the thread would be the last
> > post. and if there are no additions to the thread, noone replied.
> >
> >
> >   
> Yes, this has already been said, but as far as I can see, the OP wanted 
> a solution which shows all the recent threads with no replies together 
> in a list. If you do it your way you have to scroll down to look for 
> unstacked threads, but this isn't what the OP wants, I think.
> 
> andy
> 
> 
is he lazy?





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