Re: Help with Message Sorting!

[Justin Sheehy <justin@linus.mitre.org>]

Jake Colman <colman@ppllc.com> writes:

> Oh!  One sec!  Are you saying that 'threading' is exclusive of 'sorting'?

Sort of, yes.  At least, it is more advanced sorting.

Some clients, such as the tin newsreader, simply do
subject-and-date-sorting and call it threading.  However, real
threading uses the In-Reply-To and References headers in addition to
Subject in order to produce more useful thread trees.  

A simple example...

Four messages are sent, in the following order:

A:  asks a question, starting the thread
B:  answers A's question, and adds other comments
C:  also answers A's question
D:  follows up to B's comments

In a client that doesn't do real threading, this would look something
like:

 A
  B
  C
  D

With decent threading, it would look more like:

 A
  B
   D
  C

Does this example make sense to you?

What is the value of your gnus-thread-sort-functions variable?

-- 
Justin Sheehy

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