From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/31909 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Fuchs Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: thread ordering, root last Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 14:38:12 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <878zur66vf.fsf@dahaIM.dyndns.org> References: <87lmyrg8c5.fsf@twocups.sirinet.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035168266 16750 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:44:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:44:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from fisher.math.uh.edu (fisher.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.35]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E78D4D051E for ; Mon, 24 Jul 2000 09:11:45 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by fisher.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id IAC08636; Mon, 24 Jul 2000 08:11:29 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 24 Jul 2000 08:10:37 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from Post-Office.UH.EDU (Post-Office.UH.EDU [129.7.1.20]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA15518 for ; Mon, 24 Jul 2000 08:10:17 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from CONVERSION-DAEMON by Post-Office.UH.EDU (PMDF V5.2-32 #40812) id <0FY700N01CH0YA@Post-Office.UH.EDU> for ding@hpc.uh.edu; Mon, 24 Jul 2000 07:39:01 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by Post-Office.UH.EDU (PMDF V5.2-32 #40812) with ESMTP id <0FY700O0FCH0FY@Post-Office.UH.EDU> for ding@hpc.uh.edu; Mon, 24 Jul 2000 07:39:00 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from dahaIM.dyndns.org (csvr3217.noe-online.at [194.106.234.217]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1F3FD051E for ; Mon, 24 Jul 2000 08:38:58 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by dahaIM.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B789B228A4; Mon, 24 Jul 2000 14:38:12 +0200 (CEST) In-reply-to: Bud Rogers's message of "24 Jul 2000 04:56:26 -0500" Original-To: Bud Rogers User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) XEmacs/21.1 (Capitol Reef) Original-Lines: 39 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:31909 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:31909 Today, Bud Rogers 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, -- Andreas Stefan Fuchs in Real Life aka asf@acm.org, asfuchs@gmx.at, asf@ycom.at in NNTP and SMTP, antifuchs in IRCNet and Relf Herbstfresser, Male 1/2 Elf Priest in AD&D