On Portable devices that may well be the case - it is on mine, but on my PC
I use rules to separate out TechNet stuff to its own folder which is sorted
by subject and then by date. Rules then sort to different inboxes according
to what address/account identity I am using and these are sorted by time or
subject also. In any case you can change the sorts in just a click if you
want to.

So sorting by subject works by presenting a discussion in chronological
order. Until someone breaks the sequence in one of the ways suggested by
Brian. I usually stay with the mainstream as on a busy techie day tracking
the multiples it is not always obvious to see the others. Hijacking is
considered bad manners on other forums I frequent and is usually objected
to.

Best Wishes
 
 
 
Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Joyce Koo
Sent: Sunday, August 18, 2013 3:41 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [TN] Technet organisation

Don, totally agree on" checks email less frequently ". Org with Subject
matter better for the pull email type. However, it is functional not as well
for us work bees that dealing with multiple working groups, with demand to
response almost immediately. (I think real estate agents, judge fund traders
, engineering groups might find push email is necessitate and Org by time is
better). I personally got very upset when some of the emails ranked time
wrong due to time zone change. (dave's Friday question for example), you
have to dig out the response based on discovery, facts, and derision making
sequence with logic. My 2 cents.

From: Don Vischulis
Sent: Sunday, August 18, 2013 7:39 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Reply To: TechNet E-Mail Forum
Subject: Re: [TN] Technet organisation


Bev

Emails in Outlook can be organized by subject rather than by date received.
This organizational method is the default in some email programs. It does
make it easier to follow discussions especially if one checks emails less
frequently.

Don Vischulis

Sent from my iPad

On Aug 17, 2013, at 9:29 AM, Bev Christian <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> Brian,
> I am the one who started the thread "[TN] Fiber optic borescope", with no
> attachments, no thread, new e-mail title, so how can it be associated with
> the threads that we had mopping about the plight of our children?
>
> Second, I have no clue what a "threading layout" is!
>
> Third,
> All my e-mails come in to my inbox in chronological order and I don't have
> any problem figuring out who is replying to who.
>
> Bev
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Brian Ellis
> Sent: Saturday, August 17, 2013 6:58 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [TN] Technet organisation
>
> [rant]
>
> May I please make an appeal (once again) to Technet users to manage the
> way they use it?
>
> When a new subject is started, it should be the start of a new thread,
> by using the Write (or New Message etc.) button on your e-mail client.
>
> When replying or adding to any thread, please use Reply or Reply All, as
> appropriate. Do NOT start a new thread relative to the same subject.
>
> Above all, do not start a new thread by using either Reply button. This
> is a cardinal error because the ideal person to reply to your question
> may be ignoring the thread you have replied to, because it is not
> interesting to him.
>
> Some recent examples:
>
> On 13 August, the thread 'Refreshment' was started, with 11 correctly
> replied messages posted, nested 4 deep. On the same day, someone started
> a new thread, 'Re: [TN] Refreshment (NTC rant)' with 15 replies, of
> which the last 3 had the subject '[TN] Flux Type', probably largely
> unread as they were tacked on as a reply to an earlier thread. On 14
> Aug, four new threads were started on the same subject, by people not
> using the Reply buttons. 2 of these were isolated messages without
> replies. 2 of them were actually the start of new threads, one with a
> chain of 7 replies nested 5 deep. The other had 4 replies nested 2 deep.
> To add insult to injury, on the 15th Aug someone started a new thread
> 'Re: [TN] NTC again [TN] Refreshment (NTC rant continues)' which had
> only one reply. Then, on the same day, someone had the brilliant idea of
> starting yet another thread with the same title, instead of replying.
> This had 17 replies. nested 4 deep, of which 5 were entitled '[TN] Fiber
> optic borescope' which were totally irrelevant and wouldn't be  seen by
> anyone bored (no pun intended) reading the 'Refreshment' rants.
>
> I'm sorry, guys and gals, this is totally chaotic. If, as I strongly
> recommend, you use a threading layout in your e-mail client, you will
> see a plurality of threads on a given subject. If there are threads you
> don't read, you may miss new threads embedded in the old ones. OTOH, if
> you don't use a threading layout, all the messages will be visible in
> chronological order, with all the subjects mixed up willy-nilly. In this
> case, there is no way you can ascribe a response to a given message and
> not to one with several messages in between. This makes it contextually
> impossible to follow a Q&A series and it would often become gobbledegook.
>
> [/rant]
>
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