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From: ewiles@netxcom.UUCP (Edwin Wiles)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Behavior of ' ' considered inconsistant
Summary: That's what's WRONG!
Message-ID: <1241@netxcom.UUCP>
Date: 11 May 89 16:54:45 GMT
References: <1415@lokkur.UUCP> <5222@pbhyf.PacBell.COM> <1114@itivax.iti.org> <5234@pbhyf.PacBell.COM> <1129@itivax.iti.org> <5257@pbhyf.PacBell.COM>
Reply-To: ewiles@netxcom.UUCP (Edwin Wiles)
Organization: NetExpress Communications, Inc., Vienna, VA
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[edited for brevity]

In article <5257@pbhyf.PacBell.COM> rob@PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo) writes:
>In article <1129@itivax.iti.org> scs@vax3.iti.org (Steve Simmons) writes:
>+Zowie!  Either we are having a major league misunderstanding here or
>+we've stumbled into a bug.
>+...sorted in Reverse Date Mail Sent.
>+  My mailbox display looks like this on startup:
>+
>+    N  1  May 6  Sender   Topic
>+    N  2  May 5  Sender   Topic
>+ -> N  3  May 4  Sender   Topic
>+       4  May 3  Sender   Topic
>+       5  May 2  Sender   Topic
>+       6  May 1  Sender   Topic
>+
>+[Steve explains that ' ' reads the msgs in order 3 4 5....]
>
>[Rob explains that that is the 'correct' thing for elm to do.]

And I say that what elm is doing wrong is that it is NOT starting with
it's pointer on message #1.  And that if it DID start with its pointer
on msg #1 the problem would (Poof!) go away.  So, Why doesn't it start
with its pointer on message # 1??????
					Curious,
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