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Re: sort by date sent (several hacks sought)

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From: Joe Wells
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 23:54
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In article <JGD.92Apr14110237@kodiak.acl.lanl.gov> jgd@acl.lanl.gov (Jerry G. DeLapp) writes:

   If it's so easy, can you please provide the hacks? That's what I was asking
   for, not the algorithm.

   [...]

   I'm sure that since this is so easy, someone who knows the code will be
   happy to post the hacks.

So in other words, we're all your slaves and we have to immediately drop
what we're doing and tend to your trivial problem?  I'm glad to know
you're so damned important.

In article <JGD.92Apr14111613@kodiak.acl.lanl.gov> jgd@acl.lanl.gov (Jerry G. DeLapp) writes:

   Fine! "Group by date sent..." Jeez! I bet you'd spend usenet bandwidth
   correcting someone's spelling too! ;-).

No, you were making a common mistake in thinking that VM sorted by date
and I pointed out that this capability does not exist.

   When a package consistently moves one particular message to the
   "bottom" of my INBOX because the day field of the date says 08 instead
   of 8, I tend to call that sorting. Mea culpa!

It is not sorting BY DATE.

   Anyone care to post a hack, instead of a semantic critique of the
   request? 8)

I suggest that no one help this incredibly rude and insulting person.

-- 
Joe Wells <jbw@cs.bu.edu>
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