Andrea Govoni wrote:
Il 12/01/10 05:10, Paul B. Gallagher ha scritto:
OK, here's a theory:
If you look at a message header, you'll see that it contains Date: and
Received: fields. The Date: field is the date attached by the sending
computer, which may or may not be accurate. The Received: fields are
attached by the various servers that handle the message en route.
This is true for e-mails but not for newsgroups messages, AFAIK.
So what's the point of having "Sort by --> Received" even for newsgroups
and what does it actually do for newsgroups messages?
It seems a bug to me.
Seems to sort by the date received on the server. I'm not sure that's totally
useful, but each article in a group is assigned a consecutive number in
ascending order, so this sort is possible. If you look at the full headers, the
Xref: header last field is the group name, a colon, and the article number
within the group. the field before that is the name of the server which assigned
the article number, often the hosting server name, but in this case the
numbering server name. The most likely software is Highwind Software, they
introduced a shared numbering server after Y2k.
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