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From: Gene E. Bloch on 6 Apr 2010 14:03
On Tue, 06 Apr 2010 07:12:10 +0100, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote:

>>
>>>
>>> No doubt I was also influenced by the very serious bugs in the
>>> initial release. (Threading was faulty, and a few other things I've
>>> now forgotten. The newsreader part was very obviously not tested
>>> before release.) Presumably that has been fixed by now, but I won't
>>> bother looking unless someone tells me that the design changes have
>>> been reversed.
>>>
>> I had occasion to look at newsgroups in TB3 a day or two ago. Don't
>> bother looking :-)
>>
>> E.g., I saw this more than once:
>>
>> Re: Some subject 14:00 April 1 2010
>> Some subject 11:00 March 31 2010
>>
> That sort of thing is the default for a newsgroup when threading is not
> switched on. The default for each freshly subscribed newsgroup is to
> sort by order received �X i.e. article order on your NNTP server, which
> is purely message arrival order for that Usenet node, and in which
> out-of-thread-order arrival such as that is commonplace. Of course, you
> won't know that this is the sort order that you are seeing until you
> tell Thunderbird to display the order received column, which is hidden
> by default. (-:

Yes, but I wasn't born yesterday.

You quoted my post without preserving the indentation that I used to
indicate the threading. At that time, I made no effort to preserve the
graphic lines, figuring that most readers on NSR, at least, would
understand the indentation. I'll quote my lines again so you will
understand.

Re: Some subject 14:00 April 1 2010
|
|___Some subject 11:00 March 31 2010


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