From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/4729 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: New features + feature freeze? Date: 16 Jan 1996 19:45:51 +0100 Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway Sender: larsi@ifi.uio.no Message-ID: References: <199512220356.WAA12488@loiosh.kei.com> <55u42t3uny.fsf@galil.austnsc.tandem.com> <91jpy7y1.fsf@bjob.no> <199601070133.TAA02528@grendel.texas.net> <199601121131.FAA00592@grendel.texas.net> <199601160733.AA14093@huha.cs.huji.ac.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035145434 30592 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:23:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:23:54 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by miranova.com (8.7.3/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA24366 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 11:27:57 -0800 Original-Received: from narfi.ifi.uio.no (narfi.ifi.uio.no [129.240.94.17]) by ifi.uio.no with SMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 19:45:53 +0100 Original-Received: from ) by narfi.ifi.uio.no ; Tue, 16 Jan 96 19:45:53 +0100 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no In-Reply-To: Yair Friedman's message of Tue, 16 Jan 1996 09:33:16 +0200 Original-Lines: 22 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:4729 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:4729 Yair Friedman writes: > LMI> That's ok for that sorting predicate. But how about, say, > LMI> `gnus-thread-sort-by-author'? How are the sorting functions supposed > LMI> to sort a gathered thread, when a gathered thread doesn't really have > LMI> an author in the root? > > gnus-thread-sort-by-author is the only sorting function that is > meaningless, who sort by author on a threaded reader? if you want to > sort by author you usually disable threading, and then sort. Sort by > date, number and subject, is applying the sort on threads roots, sort > by score is realy sort by total score. The same goes with sorting by date, number and subject as with author. Parts of a gathered thread do not necessarily have the same subject, and they certainly do not have the same date and number. So the question remains -- what subject, date, author, and number are one supposed to use when sorting gathered threads? -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@ifi.uio.no * Lars Ingebrigtsen