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From: Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>
Cc: ding@gnus.org, info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: orphaned articles / loose threads and gnus-thread-sort-by-most-recent-number (was: Simple thread sorting question)
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 13:13:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <v9lkk76s65.fsf_-_@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yup47ivr8b6c.fsf@sbz-32.cs.helsinki.fi> (Jarmo Hurri's message of "Sat\, 13 Jan 2007 12\:37\:31 +0200")

[ Shifting this to the development list (ding).  Readers of ding, see
  <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/8508/focus=8521> for
  more. ]

On Sat, Jan 13 2007, Jarmo Hurri wrote:

> and here with (not gnus-thread-sort-by-most-recent-number), ordering
> false: thread with post number 439307 is way too high
>
> 439289    [  47: James                  ] Re: Virus help, please
> 439290    [  28: Conan The Librarian    ] OT: A "creative" solution to
> 439291    [  17: Tim J.                 ] Re: Trout Unlimited
> 439307        <  12: Stan Gula              > 
> 439292    [   9: salmobytes             ] Re: some good news anyway
> 439294        [  24: salmobytes             ] 
> 439299    [   5: Scott Seidman          ] OT:  Olbermann
> 439300        [   9: Ken Fortenberry        ] 
> 439302            [  21: Scott Seidman          ] 
> 439295    [  45: briansfly              ] Re: Floater help needed
> 439297        [  18: Larry L                ] 
> 439304            [  23: briansfly              ] 
[...]

Again, 439307 is part of a loose thread.  I don't know how orphaned
articles / loose threads are supposed to be handled with
`gnus-thread-sort-by-most-recent-number'.  Anyone?

(Maybe we should just document the current behavior if we can't handle
orphans better?)

Bye, Reiner.
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  reply	other threads:[~2007-01-13 12:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-11 17:49 Simple thread sorting question Jarmo Hurri
2007-01-11 21:06 ` Reiner Steib
2007-01-12  7:10   ` Jarmo Hurri
2007-01-12 10:43     ` Reiner Steib
2007-01-12 14:17       ` Jarmo Hurri
2007-01-12 17:05         ` Reiner Steib
2007-01-13 10:37           ` Jarmo Hurri
2007-01-13 12:13             ` Reiner Steib [this message]
     [not found]             ` <mailman.3033.1168717393.2155.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2007-01-15  8:15               ` orphaned articles / loose threads and gnus-thread-sort-by-most-recent-number Jarmo Hurri

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