orphaned articles / loose threads and gnus-thread-sort-by-most-recent-number (was: Simple thread sorting question)

[Reiner Steib]

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On Sat, Jan 13 2007, Jarmo Hurri wrote:

> and here with (not gnus-thread-sort-by-most-recent-number), ordering
> false: thread with post number 439307 is way too high
>
> 439289    [  47: James                  ] Re: Virus help, please
> 439290    [  28: Conan The Librarian    ] OT: A "creative" solution to
> 439291    [  17: Tim J.                 ] Re: Trout Unlimited
> 439307        <  12: Stan Gula              > 
> 439292    [   9: salmobytes             ] Re: some good news anyway
> 439294        [  24: salmobytes             ] 
> 439299    [   5: Scott Seidman          ] OT:  Olbermann
> 439300        [   9: Ken Fortenberry        ] 
> 439302            [  21: Scott Seidman          ] 
> 439295    [  45: briansfly              ] Re: Floater help needed
> 439297        [  18: Larry L                ] 
> 439304            [  23: briansfly              ] 
[...]

Again, 439307 is part of a loose thread.  I don't know how orphaned
articles / loose threads are supposed to be handled with
`gnus-thread-sort-by-most-recent-number'.  Anyone?

(Maybe we should just document the current behavior if we can't handle
orphans better?)

Bye, Reiner.
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