Subj : Re: slightly different format
To   : August Abolins
From : Wilfred van Velzen
Date : Sun Nov 15 2020 20:42:03

Hi August,

On 2020-11-15 20:06:13, you wrote to me:

 AA> Where the real magic resides, I find, is in a program that can utilize
 AA> the TZUTC info in such a way it organizes the message in true
 AA> chronological order in a thread - and not based on arrival time.  For
 AA> instance, if don't read an echo for days, but different people write
 AA> messages with true replies prior to that at different times, the
 AA> actual order of the messages in a thread are connected to a parent
 AA> message in the time order that people thus spoke.

I know, and I even thought about implementing such a function in FMail. But it would be difficult to do it right. Because for instance there are messages without the TZUTC kludge. How do you sort those. I you use TZUTC 0000 as default, they will probably end up in the wrong order. I thought about creating a table for this that couples the netnumber to a particular timezone, but there probably are nets, that have nodes in different timezones. And of course there are nodes that are in nets that are not in their timezone. So lots of things that can go wrong, so I never took the time. ;)

Bye, Wilfred.

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