Re: [Pan-users] Sorting problem?

[Bruce Bowler]

On Tue, 18 Mar 2003 23:13:37 +0100
Torstein Sunde <address@hidden> put fingers to keyboard
and said:

> Bruce Bowler wrote:
> > [...]
> > but I have the groups I follow set to thread messages and sort
> > ascending by date.
> > 
> > For what I call base articles everything is hunky dory.  Early ones
> > appear at the top of the list, later ones appear further down the
> > list.  The problem is with replies.  As an example, in
> > comp.lang.fortran, there's a thread that starts with a message created
> > 18-Mar-2003 12:22.  There are 3 replies.  The first one listed under
> > that base article has a date of 18-Mar-2003 13:45, the second's date
> > is 18-Mar-2003 13:18, the 3rd one, which is actually the first reply
> > is dated 18-Mar-2003 12:52.  The replies are in the reverse order that
> > I'd expect them in.   This situation is not unique to this particular
> > case.  It is uniform across the 40+ groups I browse...
> > 
> > Am I wrong in expecting the replies to be in ascending date order too?
> > [...]
> 
> I've been observing the same issue for quite a while myself, but I've
> been too lazy to file a bug report yet.  It also applies when sorting
> in descending order, and the replies aren't sorted in any particular
> order at all, not necessarily in descending or reverse order.  (Try
> looking at a thread with many replies.)
> 
> I would prefer *always* viewing the replies ascending by date, even when
> viewing the *threads* descending by date or sorted by another field. 
> (AFAIK, that's also what most other graphical newsreaders do.)
> Anyone who disagree on this?
> 
> You could always file a bug report, unless you'll rather wait for me or
> someone else to get the lead out...  I don't think this is filed in
> Bugzilla; the only open bug with "sort" in the summary is something
> else.

I'll file a bug report.  Just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing
something obvious.  I guess I'm not...

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