Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!think!ames!pasteur!ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU!fair From: fair@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU (Erik E. Fair) Newsgroups: news.misc Subject: Re: Random order news Message-ID: <4025@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu> Date: 22 Jun 88 06:33:53 GMT References: <3543@enea.se> <104@carpet.WLK.COM> Sender: news@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu Organization: USENET Protocol Police, Western Gateway Division Lines: 11 This is a user interface problem - when the user interfaces learn to sort by date, you win. Until then, you are at the mercy of the transport system (which is not going to change *that* fundamentally) which delivers things out of order. it's only a small matter of software, Erik E. Fair ucbvax!fair fair@ucbarpa.berkeley.edu P.S. Of course, if you *really* want to see who responded to what, you should be looking at Message-IDs and References.