Re: gnus-thread-sort-functions

[Tassilo Horn]

Sébastien Vauban <zthjwsqqafhv@spammotel.com>
writes:

Hi Sébastien,

> 1. "False" threads seem not to be correctly displayed based on the
>    above rule.  By false threads, I mean articles bound together based on
>    the subject, not on the reference.
>
>    Such threads do not appear to be correctly sorted based on the most
>    recent date, but only on the root date. Do you have a similar
>    effect?

I have to admit that I never compared dates.  I even don't show them in
summary buffers...

> 2. I've seen a few threads where the internal sorting was crazy, such as:
>
>      poster2          2007-07-24 06:44  4.1k     ● (First answer)
>      poster3          2007-07-24 19:42  0.0k     ├─▶ (Second answer)
>      poster4          2007-07-24 19:42  4.6k     │└─▶ (Third answer)
>      poster5          2007-07-28 03:13  5.2k     │   └─▶ (Fourth answer)
>      original-poster  2007-07-24 08:28  5.8k     └─▶ (Question)
>
>    I can't find back an example of this, but...

Phew, dunno how this could happen.  Maybe somehow by setting
gnus-summary-thread-gathering-function to gnus-gather-threads-by-subject
and posters with wrong dates?  But that's only a blind guess...

> 3. Have you any specific customization for the threading stuff?

I use

      (setq gnus-fetch-old-headers 'some)
      (setq gnus-build-sparse-threads nil) ;; the default

and never tried other values of the latter.

Bye,
Tassilo