walt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Mon, 10 Jul 2006 12:42:47 -0700:
> The subject of threading in binaries groups has always confused me anyway, > and I've never figured out how to do exactly what I really want: i.e. > sort posts in roughly chronological order, yet not intermingle multiparts > which were posted by different people during the same time period. I can > 'de-mingle' the parts by sorting on Subject, but then the chronology is > destroyed. I've had this problem too. I've learned to handle it with a couple of strategies. While my default would be sort by date, and I'll start processing the group that way, when I hit an intermingled patch, I'll flip to sort by subject or author, such that the first of the intermingled series is grouped, and process it. When I'm done, I delete that set and switch back to date to get the next of the intermingled series. Eventually, that leaves a generally unmingled series because all the others have been processed and deleted, and I go from there. I also tend to download almost everything (save for obvious spam and stuff I'm obviously not interested in) to cache first, and then process everything locally. That's why the delete steps above. Removing the obvious rejects first both reduces clutter and saves downloading. Deleting series as they are processed again frees the cache space. This requires about 4 gigs of cache (with the stuff I download) to manage correctly, or stuff ends up deleted right after it's downloaded, without me even having a chance to look at it! Downloading to cache first means I can do that while I'm at work or sleeping, and the processing is all with local data. It also means I get the benefit of the full post metadata (date/time, subject, poster), as well as the filenames, when I'm doing the processing. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
