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[Dan_Jacobson at ATT.COM]

>>>>> On 14 Feb 91 06:50:44 GMT, morgan at ogicse.ogi.edu (Clark O. Morgan) said:

Clark> Re: switching to Mush...that's a big thumbs up from me, as
Clark> well.  In fact, just to whet your appetite: Mush gives you two
Clark> signatures.

Yeah, but we all know how foolish it looks to have your signature
repeated twice at the bottom of email/netnews :-) [:hitting below the
belt].  So what you really want is the GNU Emacs add-on VM mailer
(address: info-vm-request at uunet.uu.net --- soon to be a newsgroup)!
Then you can use SuperCite like me above and impress your friends.
[Disclaimer: I've never tried mush or elm]

A page from the VM manual:
File: vm  Node: Grouping Messages, Prev: Undoing, Up: Top, Next: Reading Digests

Grouping Messages
*****************

In order to make numerous related messages easier to cope with, VM
provides the command `G' (`vm-group-messages'), which groups all message
in a folder according to some criterion.  "Grouping" causes messages
that are related in some way to be presented consecutively.  The actual
order of the folder is not altered; the messages are simply numbered and
presented differently.  Grouping should not be confused with sorting;
grouping only moves messages that occur later in the folder backward to
"clump" with other related messages.

The grouping criteria currently supported are:
`subject'
     Messages with the same subject (ignoring "Re:" prefixes) are grouped
     together.
`author'
     Messages with the same author are grouped together.
`date-sent'
     Messages sent on the same day are grouped together.
`arrival-time'
     Message presentation reverts to arrival time ordering (the default).

If the variable `vm-group-by' has a non-`nil' value it specifies the
default grouping that will be used for all folders.  So if you like
having your mail presented to you grouped by subject, then put `(setq
vm-group-by "subject")' in your `.emacs' file to get this behavior.
-- 
Dan_Jacobson at ATT.COM  Naperville IL USA  +1 708-979-6364