Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jolly Roger Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: ftp software Date: 19 Oct 2016 18:15:49 GMT Organization: People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates Lines: 65 Message-ID: References: <2016101615500919888-xxx@yyyzzz> <2016101616434821678-xxx@yyyzzz> <2016101717030649672-xxx@yyyzzz> <2016101818042129874-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom> <201610182025294294-xxx@yyyzzz> <2016101820335426831-xxx@yyyzzz> <2016101910553352030-xxx@yyyzzz> X-Trace: individual.net CQCeRHp2E2dlPpRt9D4lHwTYxYw/J1CqpqnNH5rE04/uMTQKRh Cancel-Lock: sha1:ajxPg3BFghZPPHO+gkIv6Fh9qPk= Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Darwin) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.apps:37128 On 2016-10-19, gtr wrote: > On 2016-10-19 15:33:54 +0000, Jolly Roger said: > >> You appear to have it sorted by most recent date first, which is >> strange. > > What would be less strange in finding a post from "today", for > example? > >> And you apparently aren't displaying posts in the preview pane >> either, which means you will have to laboriously double-click each >> post opening it in a new window just to read it. > > I clipped just the sort part of the image rather than the entire > screen. Nevertheless, in most any discussion on csma, the salient part > of a post is 40 lines down in the preview, so it means you have to > bounce back and forthe between the list and scrolling to the bottom of > preview. Still more convenient than having to double-click each message just to view it, then close each window when you are done. And many Usenet clients let you easily collapse quoted material so that's not an issue. >> Sorted correctly and displaying the preview pane in Unison, it's the >> *third* post down: >> >> > > Seems it's sorted by date, no? It's sorted with the oldest at the top. The post you were after was the third post, chronologically. At the time you posted, yours was the seventh post. Yours, on the other hand, was sorted such that old and new posts were seemingly intermingled. Anyhow, the point you're avoiding is it would have been very easy for you to find what you were looking for. >> Here's the post in my Usenet client, slrn (again, third post down): >> >> > > I thought I was looking for the Yummy Pro post. And had you simply looked at the previous posts, you would have quickly learned you were wrong. > Again, clipping previous text--surely you admit it's not a specifcally > GOOD thing to do, right? Of course. I'm just not as completely helpless in that situation as you *claim* to be. >> And here's the post on Google Groups (again, the third post down): >> >> > > So there's two programs I don't use. I'm sure there are many programs you don't currently use. Not sure what point you are trying to make. -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR