===CONFIDENTIAL===
On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 03:14:20PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote:
> > I'm trying to understand if it's 'normal' (wink: Derek
> > Martin, if you copy) to have most of my threads sorted
> > not-really-through-date-received.
> Why are you winking at me?
This is from a different thread, recognize the composer ?
>Mostly I reply here due to a curiosity: Why is "'messed'" in
>single quotes here? I see people do this
>increasingly often, and I don't get why.
> > Sat,May 17 12:19:PM Karl Voit Writing a wrapper for the
> > editor: mutt aborts in-between
> > Sat,May 17 02:51:PM Kevin J. McCarthy ├─>
> > Sun,May 18 04:14:AM Chris Green │ └─>
> > Sat,May 17 05:04:PM Mike Glover └─>
> > Sat,May 17 05:59:PM Karl Voit └─>
> > Sat,May 17 09:51:PM Cameron Simpson ├─>
> > Sun,May 18 02:58:AM Karl Voit │ └─>
> > Sat,May 17 07:02:PM Gary Johnson └─>
>
> This is normal and expected.
>
> The messages form a tree (a directed graph) which shows the
> relationship of what was replied to. They ARE in chronological
> order... if you consider that; i.e. each individual branch of the tree
> is in chronological order.
>
> This ordering is important, because it enables you to visually see the
> relationship between messages from a particular branch of the thread,
> so you can ignore them if you aren't interested in that branch (like
> if someone posts something tangential to the thread).
I understand, and that was one of my suspicions, and, I was not
sure if this falls under normal thread behaviour, or not. I've
been trying to reflect on this idea for quite some time now, and
I guess, I can finally lay it to rest.
When it happens, though, sometimes I do see irregular
behaviour. e.g : right in this current thread, when I opened the
mutt mailbox, your messages, from 4:14PM, was right above
Cameron's message from 7:22PM. At that point, I thought - that's
because your responding directly to my message. Then, I
refreshed my index for some other reason, and the index shifted
to what you see now:
Thu, May 22, 2014 at 05:19:42PM EDT To [email protected] Display of threads,
order in question
Thu, May 22, 2014 at 07:22:07PM EDT Cameron Simpson ├─>
Thu, May 22, 2014 at 08:54:23PM EDT To [email protected] │ └─>
Thu, May 22, 2014 at 09:37:48PM EDT Cameron Simpson │ └─>
Fri, May 23, 2014 at 08:19:11AM EDT To [email protected] │ └─>
Fri, May 23, 2014 at 11:22:54AM EDT David Champion │ └─>
Fri, May 23, 2014 at 03:15:05PM EDT To [email protected] │ └─>
Fri, May 23, 2014 at 04:05:13PM EDT David Champion │ └─>
Fri, May 23, 2014 at 06:50:55PM EDT To [email protected] │ └─>
Fri, May 23, 2014 at 04:14:20PM EDT Derek Martin └─>
Just to clarify things up, which one of the two instances would
you consider at valid? Should your 4:14 message being right below
my OP, or where it is, as you see in the paste ?
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GG
