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From: kjones@talos.uu.net (Kyle Jones)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs,comp.emacs
Subject: Re: vm sorting bug?
Message-ID: <1990Feb10.150531.2641@talos.uu.net>
Date: 10 Feb 90 15:05:31 GMT
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T. Kurosaka writes:
 > I used VM's G(vm-group-messages) command to group messages by
 > Subject.  I was imppressed by the vm's ability to ignores "Re:" and
 > blanks in grouping.  But I was puzzled by the order of messages in
 > the group.  Following is a part of subject lines.  Here, Dec 17
 > message (377) comes after the Dec 21 and Dec 27 messages.  Perhapas,
 > there is some bug in sorting the dates?

VM doesn't do sorting of any kind.  It *groups* messsage based on
certain criteria, but messages always remain in arrival order within
their respective groupings.