Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!amdahl!uunet!mcvax!enea!sommar From: sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog) Newsgroups: news.misc Subject: Re: Random order news Message-ID: <3652@enea.se> Date: 3 Jul 88 21:55:23 GMT Organization: ENEA DATA AB, Sweden Lines: 24 Erik E. Fair (fair@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU) writes: >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. I don't think the user interface is good place to handle this. Every time I enter the group there would be start-up time equal to the time for my first "k" in a group today. A little annoying. Also, this would have to done for every user, instead of once if it was the response of the transport system. Another loss is that it only helps me within the same session. The case is not unsual when the predecessor comes in another batch than the follow-up, and that could be days later. And it is these big delays that are really annoying. To me it doesn't unreasonable to implement more sophisticated selectiob algorithms could be implemented at transport level at at least the more central sites, like uunet or mcvax. -- Erland Sommarskog ENEA Data, Stockholm sommar@enea.UUCP "It all looks quite impressive really, but is it really necessary?" Radio Stars