CAT LADY WANTED

wrote:
"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote:

Doesn't matter! All the available posts for one title download
(more-or-less in date order), then all the available posts for the next
title, etc. The posting/arrival time for a given set of posts is
immaterial. At whatever time I choose to read a newsgroup, my browser
downloads all posts for each title, before proceeding to the next one.
The time posted is immaterial - "CAT LADY WANTED" begins with a "C", the
post about the dead cat had a title beginning with a letter that occurs
later on in the alphabet. (Ergo......)

Apologies if you're bored to tears with this topic. (Same to everyone
else, who have probably stopped reading this thread anyway.)

Semi-hypothetical situation:

Let's say you read a bunch of posts on Monday, July 7. Among these
posts is Tigerboy's personal ad post. Suppose that is the only post of
his that has arrived on your server as of that day. Then that is the
first post of his that you will see.

You finish reading and log off.

The next day, you go back and read news again. Suddenly, there is
Tigerboy's post about his cat. It has arrived a day later. So you are
seeing it *after* you saw the personals post. He might have posted the
cat post first, but it did not arrive at *your* server until July 8.
So, no matter how you sort your messages while reading on the 7th, the
cat post will not come first, second, or 1000th, because *it is not
there yet*.
(In this scenario, if you don't read news on the 7th, but do read on the
8th, then yes, it's true that both posts will be there. And because you
sort articles alphabetically, it won't matter what order they arrived.)

Exactly! If both are there, I see them alphabetically, regardless of
the order in which they were actually posted.