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From: king@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au (Paul King)
Newsgroups: news.software.nn
Subject: Re: sorting of subject line
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Date: 25 Jan 90 22:50:54 GMT
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rcodi@koel.co.rmit.oz (Ian Donaldson) writes:

>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

I get this effect from people who change the subject line
i.e., don't use the followup features correctly.

For instance, if I was to follow up to this article but change
the subject line to `correct reason for sorting foulups'
instead of `Re: sorting of subject line' then alpabetically
my reply would come before the original.  So depending on
how often you read your news and where abouts in the world
you are in relation to the sender(s), you are likely to
read my followup before the original.  Luckily, I use the
followup option built-in to nn and am to lazy to even
contemplate finding out if it is possible to change the
subject line, so most people won't get out of order messages
from me.

Paul K