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>>>>> "Steinar" == Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> writes:

>>>>> Bruno Tavernier <tavernier.bruno@gmail.com>:
    >> For instance gnus displays the oldest first and the newest at the
    >> bottom and nnir does the opposite.

    Steinar> I'm guessing (I haven't checked the code or earlier
    Steinar> postings by Andrew Cohen on the subject) nnir aims to list
    Steinar> by the way the search engine returns the results (which
    Steinar> depends on the search engine, but usually relevance
    Steinar> calculation has something to do with the returned order).

That's right (more or less---there are complications when searching more
than one group).

Although I haven't played with it, you might be able to sort the summary
buffer with the usual sorting functions. I'd be curious to know how well
this works.