Subject: Sorting by Thread in news

From: Sean Hussey <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 09:36:17 -0500

Hey everyone,

I'd like to be able to sort the messages in my newsgroups by thread.  
Ordered Subject works to a point, but it doesn't then sort the messages 
by date within the ordered subject.  Is there any way to do this?

Thanks!  :)

Sean

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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 08:34:33 -0800 (PST)

Well, it's *supposed* to sort by date within the pseudo thread...
but it is a bit picky about having correct date headers.
For example if you see one that has the year in two-digit form (e.g. "96")
it will always sort before the messages with correct four-digit years...

If you have examples of messages that appear to have correctly formatted
date headers but don't sort correctly, please bounce a couple of examples
to me and I'll get them to the right person.

-teg

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From: Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 09:27:22 -0800 (PST)

Actually, in 3.91 it doesn't sort by date within the pseudo thread, it
sorts by arrival order.  So if messages arrive out of order, they will
show up out of order with this sort (or with the default Arrival sort).
In 3.92 we're changing it to sort by date within the pseudo thread.

Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Networks and Distributed Computing, Univ. of Washington, Seattle

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From: Sean Hussey <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 12:39:28 -0500 (EST)

Ok, great.  Is there a proposed release date for 3.92 yet?  I don't wanna 
nag, but if you've got the info (or a way for me to get it), I (and my 
whole staff) would appreciate it.

Thanks for the replies!

Sean

> > > by date within the ordered subject.  Is there any way to do this?

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