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>>>>> On 15 Apr 92 23:54:45 GMT, jbw@bigbird.bu.edu (Joe Wells) said:

Joe> In article <JGD.92Apr14110237@kodiak.acl.lanl.gov> jgd@acl.lanl.gov (Jerry G. DeLapp) writes:

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

Joe>    [...]

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

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

I admit I was a little hacked when I wrote this post. I felt you were
trivializing what I thought was a legitimate request for help.  But, please
don't put words in my mouth that weren't there to begin with and that I
certainly never intended.

Joe, you've deleted the portion of my post that said I had tried several
things already and none of them worked. I feel you've unfairly quoted me out
of context here.

I burned several hours trying to understand the source code, and in fact tried
several things I thought might work, but I was unsuccessful. Your post didn't
get me any closer to solving the problem I was looking for help with.

I don't consider anyone on the net to be my "slave." I also don't usually
expect a response that to me says "this is so easy I won't even bother posting
the solution." I didn't find it easy. That's why I was asking for help.

I apologize to anyone who might have thought I was asking them to "slave" for
me... I just didn't want to have to reinvent a wheel that I was sure someone
else has already built. I thought that that's part of what the net was
about...

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

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

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

I'm new to this group. In fact, I joined it to ask the questions I did.  It
was pointed out to me by another reader of this newsgroup that "group vs sort"
turns out to be a recurring thread here. I was unaware of this when I posted
the response.

Being unaware that folks here were so sensitive about the difference between
"sorting" and "grouping," I thought you were just being pedantic. Certainly
your other post had an effect on my opinion with respect to this. I was fairly
sure that folks would realize that I really meant group by date sent. I
thought that you were just cutting on my post for the hell of it. I was wrong.
I misunderstood why you posted that response.  At the time, I felt I responded
accordingly. I realize now that I was too close to a bare wire and it caused
some sparks.

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

All I did here was explain why I mistakenly called it sorting...

Joe> It is not sorting BY DATE.

I know. I misspoke.

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

OK, I admit it... this was a snotty thing to say, even with the smiley.

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

I sincerely feel that the above line is more rude than anything in my posts. I
really don't feel that anything I've said merits a sanction of this nature.

Having explained why I posted what I did, I can only now hope that most of the
other readers don't think I'm as bad as Joe appears to think. Joe, I hope I've
made you feel a little better too.

Obviously, I hope the rest of you ignore Joe's suggestion when the next user
comes along who asks for something and maybe doesn't quite know where this
group's sore spots are. As for me, it'll be a while before I post here again.

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

Be well Joe.
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Jerry G. DeLapp -- ACL System Scientist -- (505) 665-4531 <jgd@lanl.gov>
Computing beyond the Bleeding Edge -- The Advanced Computing Laboratory