Re: thread ordering, root last

[Andreas Fuchs <asf@acm.org>]

Today, Bud Rogers <budr@sirinet.net> wrote:
> I just subscribed to the pgsql-hackers list.  Haven't yet made any changes
> to group parameters, etc.  In the summary buffer the messages are arranged
> in threads but in every case the root of the thread is listed last.  I have
> seen this occasionally with other groups, but never quite so consistently.

> Is this a problem with gnus, with the list, or with my setup?

It's your setup, I think. It seems that you do message-ordering by
Subject string. Let's see now:

> R +[ 43: Adriaan Jouber] Re: [HACKERS] Loading binary data into the database
>   +[ 33: Tom Lane      ] Re: [HACKERS] Loading binary data into the database
>   +[ 36: Adriaan Jouber] Re: [HACKERS] Loading binary data into the database
>   +[ 15: Tom Lane      ] Re: [HACKERS] Loading binary data into the database
>   +[ 36: Adriaan Jouber] [HACKERS] Loading binary data into the database

And now:

[0]asf@dahaIM:~% echo "R" | char
82 52 122
[0]asf@dahaIM:~% echo "[" | char
91 5b 133
(char is a little hack I have written myself, which outputs the value
in bin, hex, oct of a character it reads from stdin)

As you can see, [ has a higher value than R, so the replies get sorted
in before the root. The same applies for Subjects that start with an
S, T, U, V, W or a { (-:

I suggest that you activate threading in Summary mode.

regards,
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