Re: sort by thread length
Hi,
At 11:36 AM PDT on June 26 Thomas Stivers sent off:
> On Jun 15 2004 10:15 AM, Thomas Stivers wrote:
> > Hi all, I have looked in TFM and don't see an obvious answer. Is there a
> > way to sort threads by the number of messages they contain? I have tried
> > various settings of $sort_aux, but no go. Thanks for any tips.
>
> I take it from the astounding response that this question got that there
> is no way to sort threads by the number of messages they contain. Is
> anyone interested in this function? If so I may look into a patch, but
> my skills aren't great so no promises.
I am slightly interested, as in I did want to do this at least once sometime
in the past, but not badly enough to do any programming. Maybe it would
be more interesting with the newsreader patch, as a way of separating active
discussions (long threads) from spam (very short threads)?
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