Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 beta 3/9/83; site cornell.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!decwrl!leonard!beesvax!utah-cs!harpo!eagle!mhuxt!mhuxi!mhuxa!houxm!hogpc!houti!ariel!vax135!cornell!hal From: hal@cornell.UUCP Newsgroups: net.news.b Subject: Articles out of order still Message-ID: <4534@cornell.UUCP> Date: Thu, 2-Jun-83 17:59:56 EDT Article-I.D.: cornell.4534 Posted: Thu Jun 2 17:59:56 1983 Date-Received: Thu, 9-Jun-83 02:39:28 EDT Sender: hal@cornell.UUCP Organization: Cornell Computer Science Lines: 31 It seems that the out-of-order article problem is as bad as ever. For instance, a sequence of 4 consecutive articles in net.religion have the following posting dates: May 12 13:34 May 5 20:41 May 3 11:11 May 4 14:47 This has come up in the past, but is apparently no closer to a solution now than before (we are running 2.10 news). The problem is that news displays articles in the order they are received (in sequence by article number), which, given the nature of this network, doesn't have any particular relation to the order in which the articles are posted. There is a simple solution (at least it's trivial to describe, although the implementation may be nasty depending on how the news software is constructed- I'm not a wizard at this so I wouldn't know). Just sort the articles by the date/time they were posted, and display them in that order! This would at least guarantee that followups are displayed after the original articles. This certainly doesn't guarantee that related articles are displayed together, or other desirable things, but it is a start and would be most appreciated. Hal Perkins uucp: {decvax|vax135|...}!cornell!hal arpa: hal@cornell bitnet:hal@crnlcs