Re: Simple thread sorting question

[Reiner Steib]

On Fri, Jan 12 2007, Jarmo Hurri wrote:

> 3953  A [  82: Johannes Schmidt       ] Re: CNS - project work available
> 3964        <  76: Johannes Schmidt       > 
> 3963    [  17: Harri Valpola          ] Re: Cortical maps
> 3965  A [  30: Harri Valpola          ] Re: Tulokset
> 3972        [   4: -> Jarmo Hurri         ] 
>
> As far as I have understood, the first and second thread should be in
> reverse order, right? And my ordering seems to follow the number of
> the first mail in the thread.

"< ... >" instead of "[ ... ]" indicates a loose thread.  Maybe this
is the problem.

,----[ (info "(gnus)Loose Threads") ]
|     `adopt'
|           Gnus will make the first of the orphaned articles the parent.
|           This parent will adopt all the other articles.  The adopted
|           articles will be marked as such by pointy brackets (`<>')
|           instead of the standard square brackets (`[]').  This is the
|           default method.
`----

Does it work as expected e.g. in a Usenet group or in this group?

> BTW, how do you get the following neat elisp evaluation buffer
> started:
>
> Reiner> | ELISP> gnus-summary-line-format

M-x ielm RET

Bye, Reiner.
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