Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 00:10:49 +0200 From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@panke.de.freebsd.org> To: Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sequencing of messages in mailing list archives Message-ID: <20010426001049.A2628@paula.panke.de.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20010422125802.A11835@linnet.org>; from B.Candler@pobox.com on Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 12:58:02PM %2B0100 References: <20010422125802.A11835@linnet.org>
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Hi Brian, thanks for your bug report. I will fix it when I have free time. -Wolfram On 2001-04-22 12:58:02 +0100, Brian Candler wrote: > When you try to read a mailing list archive in 'subject' order, the messages > appear to be in an arbitrary order in the index (most noticeably, the first > posting in the thread is often in the middle). For example see: > http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mailindex.cgi?sort=subject&file=archive/2001/freebsd-stable/20010422.freebsd-stable > > and have a look at the thread "Found a typo...". It does not seem to be > sorting either in date order, or by following message threads. I have tried > manually unpicking this thread, and here's what you get, showing the > messages in the same order as the list archive: > > (1)Re: Found a typo... Tue, 17 Apr 2001 01:50:40 +0200 (Mon 2350Z) > In-Reply-To: (4) > References: (2), (4) > > (2) Re: Found a typo... Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:15:01 +0200 (Mon 2115Z) > In-Reply-To: (3) > > (3) Found a typo... Mon, 16 Apr 2001 11:37:56 -0500 (Mon 1637Z) > > (4) Re: Found a typo... Mon, 16 Apr 2001 16:10:03 -0700 (Mon 2310Z) > In-Reply-To: (2) > > (5) Re: Found a typo... Tue, 17 Apr 2001 11:34:43 +0200 (Tue 0935Z) > In-Reply-To: (4) > References: (2), (4) > > (6) Re: Found a typo... Fri, 20 Apr 2001 00:12:02 +0200 (Thu 2212Z) > In-Reply-To: (7) > References: (5), (7) > > (7) Re: Found a typo... Thu, 19 Apr 2001 05:45:51 -0700 (Thu 1245Z) > In-Reply-To: (5) > > The natural order by In-Reply-To: should be 3 2 4 1 5 7 6 > (or 5 1 instead of 1 5, but date disambiguates) > > Sorting by date also gives the same order. > > This makes it very tricky to follow a thread using the index... so it would > be nice if this could be fixed. > > Thanks, > > Brian. -- Wolfram Schneider <wosch@FreeBSD.org> http://wolfram.schneider.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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