Re: [Pan-users] Sorting issues - example

[Eric Ortega]

On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 06:56:08PM +0000, Brian Morrison wrote:

> As you will see from above, the original poster said "sort by subject".
> That's exactly what Pan has done, and it has done it correctly. 

I agree.  I guess I automatically assumed that he was resurrecting
one of the older "let's do fancier sorting" threads we had.

I was proven wrong by his own response.  Sorry.


> I didn't think I was being snippy, ...

Well, if he was purposely trying to point out a case where intelligent 
sorting would help, then you would have been snippy.  :)

As it was, though, you read it properly and I didn't.  

I apologize.


> the problem is that until the
> requirement is defined in a way that allows a solution to be coded
> without guesswork it is unlikely to be 100% effective. However, that may
> be enough for some people. If I used binary groups (which I don't) I
> would be unhappy with anything less than perfection, but then that's not
> easy to achieve....

It's damn near impossible to get perfect.  With 200+ post series, reposts,
half-finished series, renumbered and restarted series, headers beginning 
with 1-100 vs 001-100, series that stop and start on different days with
different titling, people posting pars with headers that start with
"oh, yeha, forgot da pras!", or, even better:

 [P00-P10+PAR] not original poster pars, everyone should use par! Requesting 
electric boogaloo scene 4-12 please repost!! beat_street.pars BEAT_STREET.PAR  


etc, it's just silly.