On Friday, 25 Nov 2016 at 11:13, Andreas Schwab wrote: > On Nov 25 2016, Eric S Fraga wrote: > >> For this group, I have tried specifying >> >> (gnus-thread-sort-functions '(gnus-thread-sort-by-date >> gnus-thread-sort-by-total-score)) >> >> in the parameters list for the group. > > How exactly did you do that? Methinks that there should not be a quote > character. I've tried to reply to the list twice now with no effect... my emails are getting lost. Anyway, third time lucky hopefully: The quote was necessary. Without the quote, the setting was ignored. In any case, I found the solution. This variable, gnus-sort-gathered-threads-function controls the behaviour I wanted to change. It is not a customisable variable which is why I didn't find it immediately. It is set to sort by number; I changed it to sort by date and I'm a happy camper. thanks, eric -- : Eric S Fraga, GnuPG: 0xFFFCF67D : in Emacs 26.0.50.1 + Gnus v5.13 + evil-git-ff74cfb : BBDB version 3.1.2 (2016-07-21 10:12:09+00:00)