Re: alphabetic order in list.pl

["k a t g y r l . com" <listmail@katgyrl.com>]

will there be a feature added to sort the list according to the ring
manager's preference... say if i wanted the first 25 rings in the list to be
my choice and not the order in which they were added to the ring...?
t r a c y
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gunnar Hjalmarsson" <mailbox@gunnar.cc>
To: <ringlinklist@gunnar.cc>
Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 1:15 PM
Subject: Re: [ringlinklist] alphabetic order in list.pl
>
> Nicromos wrote:
> >
> > What must i do in the list.pl when i want a alphabetic list order
> > by the site title??
>
> list.pl lists the sites in the same order as the items are listed in
> sites.db. I have no plan to change list.pl in the direction you would
> like to see, so you would need to do it yourself (or convince someone
> else). Not that I see the rational for it... Conceptually list.pl
> displays an extract from a ring, without any beginning or end, so
> sorting the sites (in alphabetical or some other order) would be
> contradictory to one of the ideas with Ringlink.
>
> A tool to change the order of the items in sites.db will be implemented
> soon. My primary intention is to make it possible to reorder the sites
> on a random basis; however, it wouldn't be very difficult to also add an
> option to sort them in alphabetical order.
>
> / Gunnar