[wplug] A question about the list.

[Rick Smith]

As far as mutt goes, and I believe true for others, there are ways
to sort mail: sent, receieved, threaded, etc.

Sorting by received puts things in an order that makes sense more
often than sorting by sent.  Threaded does nicely, though not as
convenient for seeing new mail.

Sorting by sent leads to interesting results because it assumes people
have their home machine set near some agreed up time.  Timezone are
factored in.  If your mail reader doesn't, get a new mail reader or hack
the code.  So it is not timestamps themselves, but it certainly can be
related to their setting.  What I have seen over the past years is wplug
mail from people's machines with timezone set wrong, like +5 instead of
-5 for EST Or -5 during the summer when we are -4.  So their mail gets
sorted (if sorting by sent) as hours before they really sent it.  (mega
tangent deleted on the ramifications to this to distributed version
control when people create things that happen in the future). 

So try sorting by received, and if you mailer doesn't sort by recieved,
then hack the code, because you are using an open source mailer, right?   :)

-- Rick

== 

On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 08:38:12AM -0500, Smith, Edward wrote:
> Something like that would be really helpful. I run a list that has people in
> the US, Great Britian and Austrailia. And everymorning all the messages are
> in a wierd order because of the time stamps.
> 
> --
> Edward C. Smith
> CBT - Multimedia Developer
> Interactive Media Corporation
> esmith at interactive-media.com
> (724) 284-7396
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jmh3 at linuxfreak.com [mailto:jmh3 at linuxfreak.com]
> Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 8:13 AM
> To: wplug at wplug.org
> Subject: Re: [wplug] A question about the list.
> 
> 
> On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Bill Powell wrote:
> 
> > At first that is what I thought, but in some cases the original note
> > physically arrives minutes or hours later. 
> > 
> > The previous statement aside, I think some of the cases might be
> > that the system clocks on the boxes that originate individual notes
> > might be set to different time zones than those of the others, since
> > I know many of the wplug list members no longer live in the
> > Pittsburgh area. 
> 
> i think your right. if you look at the message headers they seem to
> originate from the original senders machine (their mail server at least).
> is there anyway to get the list to restamp all of the messages?
> 
> i've noticed this on discussion groups that are archived-most noteable
> geocrawler.
> 
> john