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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
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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.      
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Erland Sommarskog           
ENEA Data, Stockholm        
sommar@enea.UUCP            
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