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From: davison@drivax.UUCP (Wayne Davison)
Newsgroups: news.software.nn
Subject: Re: Suggestion: sorting threads by time instead of alphabetically
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Date: 13 Feb 90 01:54:19 GMT
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cosell@BBN.COM (Bernie Cosell) wrote:
} I think that it would be better if the various threads in the article
} selection menu were presented in chronological order instead of
} alphabetical.  "psuedo followups" are common occurrences, but once you
} alphabetize the menu the implicit ordering gets all messed up.

I agree completely.  That's why I patched nn to not only group the common
subjects together, but to also arrange the subjects in date order of their
first article.  This sorting works quite well, and I sent Kim the patch to
implement it last October or so.

Kim -- is my sort algorithm available in nn v6.4 [a.k.a. 6.3.12]?
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