From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/15669 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Justin Sheehy Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Help with Message Sorting! Date: 17 Jul 1998 09:28:47 -0400 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <76iuky68c7.fsf@tweed.principia.com> <763ec14n7s.fsf@tweed.principia.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035154659 23365 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:57:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:57:39 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from gwyn.tux.org (gwyn.tux.org [207.96.122.8]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id GAA06448 for ; Fri, 17 Jul 1998 06:36:13 -0700 Original-Received: from gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (gizmo.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.102.31]) by gwyn.tux.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA12527 for ; Fri, 17 Jul 1998 09:32:52 -0400 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (sina.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.3.5]) by gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAT06103; Fri, 17 Jul 1998 08:06:04 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 17 Jul 1998 08:29:00 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [209.195.19.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA20543 for ; Fri, 17 Jul 1998 08:28:52 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from linus.mitre.org (linus.mitre.org [129.83.10.1]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA17637 for ; Fri, 17 Jul 1998 09:28:53 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from caffeine.mitre.org (caffeine [129.83.10.136]) by linus.mitre.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA14653 for ; Fri, 17 Jul 1998 09:28:50 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (from justin@localhost) by caffeine.mitre.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA19749; Fri, 17 Jul 1998 09:28:48 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Jake Colman's message of "16 Jul 1998 15:20:23 -0400" Original-Lines: 46 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.24/Emacs 20.2 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:15669 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:15669 Jake Colman 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 In a cloud bones of steel.