On 8/29/2005 07:53, Dave Butler wrote:

Mark Hansen wrote:
On 8/29/2005 06:31, Dave Butler wrote:

You shouldn't depend on everyone having the same view of the ordering
of postings that you have. Each news *server* is independent and may
receive postings in different order. This fact has nothing to do with
the choice of news *client* software.

Yes it does. News postings are threaded. Each posting retains a headers
which identifies it's thread and parent posting. Most news reader clients
look at these headers and provide the user the option of organizing the
posts accordingly.

Not wanting to start a ****ing context here, but your direct contradiction of my
statement is wrong. Your choice of news client *does* have exactly nothing to do
with the fact that news servers are independent and may receive postings in
different orders.

True, but the order with which the news server receives the posting is of
less consequence when the client threads the postings in the correct order.


I've only used 4 or 5 different news reader clients over the years, but
they've all provided this feature. I wouldn't consider using one that
didn't, but that's perhaps just personal preference.

That's my preference, too. If the posting that is replied to hasn't been seen
yet by my news server, no news client software can show it. I'm not sure whether
that's what happened here, though.

I've never experienced that problem (in 15 years, anyway).



Please include a little context (as I have above, for example) so we
can see what you are replying to.

...and I still think this is good advice.

Anyway, this meta-discussion is off topic and I'd like to bring it to a close.

Dave


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Mark Hansen, PP-ASEL, Instrument Student
Sacramento, CA