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merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes:

> >>>>> "Kai" == Kai Großjohann <Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE> writes:
> 
> Kai> Are there
> Kai> serious bugs in 5.8.7?  I vaguely remember that I have told people to
> Kai> fetch a 5.8.8 snapshot quite a number of times, but I don't remember
> Kai> the details.  Gack.  I wish I did.  But there must have been a reason
> Kai> for me to do so.  Hm.
> 
> It's not a show-stopper, but 5.8.7 gets "sorting newsgroups"
> backwards.  I always have to remember to sort "in reverse" to get them
> forward, and when coming out of a newsgroup that is completely read,
> it sometimes goes up, and not down.

I've tried to reproduce this bug in Emacs 20.7, 21.0 and XEmacs 21.2.
But Gnus always sorts newsgroups in the right order.  Therefore, I am
unable to fix the bug.  My wild guess is that Emacs 20.3 is buggy when
sorting.

ShengHuo