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From: rcodi@koel.co.rmit.oz (Ian Donaldson)
Newsgroups: news.software.nn
Subject: Re: sorting of subject line
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Date: 24 Jan 90 12:10:02 GMT
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ccastjb@prism.gatech.EDU (Joubert Berger) writes:
>Nn is supposed to sort the subject lines.  That works for me.  Now after
>all subjects have have been sorted and there are a few messages with the
>the same subject heading, what does nn do?  I sometimes find that I am reading
>a reply to a message before I read the original message.  Is this a bug, or
>did I miss something.  

It is probably a side effect of the huge number of people that don't
know how to set the correct time on their machine.  They set the
local-time correctly (mostly) but don't bother setting the timezone
correctly before hand.  Generally the timezone is the same as
the one the manufacturer left on the distribution tapes.

The result is that the GMT value of time on their machine is incorrect,
and it is this value that appears in "Date:" headers in articles,
upon which nn sorts the order.

Ian D