Re: [Pan-users] Sorting issues - example

[Eric Ortega]

On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 09:22:41AM +0000, Brian Morrison wrote:
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> On 11 Dec 2002 10:52:00 -0800 in address@hidden Chris
> Petersen <address@hidden> wrote:
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> > ok, finally came across an example I could post to the list...  Bring
> > up alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.celtic and sort by subject.  Scroll down a
> > bit until you come to some lines that start like:
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> > (NMR) [01of11] Cathie Ryan...
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> > You'll notice that these continue like:
> > 
> > (NMR) [01of11] Cathie Ryan - Somewhere...
> > (NMR) [01of13] Cathie Ryan - Cathie...
> > (NMR) [02of11] Cathie Ryan - Somewhere...
> > (NMR) [02of13] Cathie Ryan - Cathie...
> > (NMR) [03of11] Cathie Ryan - Somewhere...
> > (NMR) [03of13] Cathie Ryan - Cathie...
> > 
> > Anyway, there are obviously still some sorting issues, but you can now
> > see what I'm talking about.
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> The articles you refer to are correctly sorted by subject, the last time
> I looked 1 comes before 3 in an alphanumeric sequence.


Now, now, there's no need to be snippy.  There has been an ongoing
discussion about "intelligent" sorting methods.  It's arguable that the
numbering is not as important as the text ... it's arguable that it should
be sorted in the way that you think is the most obvious.

That's what people have been discussing.  Not 1 vs 3 precedence.  :)